Associations to the word «Penance»
Noun
- Stare
- Scripture
- Severity
- Monastery
- Denial
- Tribunal
- Convent
- Compassion
- Sitter
- Torment
- Prowess
- Conscience
- Karma
- Abode
- Catholic
- Affliction
- Purge
- Pope
- Sorrow
- Worship
- Persecution
- Deliverance
- Heaven
- Priesthood
- Fra
- Offence
- Abbot
- Believer
- Blessing
- Synod
- Wherefore
- Wealth
- Doing
- Ritual
- Layman
- Christ
- Psalm
- Incarnation
- Supreme
- Gift
- Emancipation
- Hereafter
- Grace
- Ash
- Perseverance
- Homicide
- Proctor
- Discipline
- Zeal
- God
- Redemption
- Goddess
- Felicity
- Bot
- Dominic
- Prelate
- Aquinas
- Obedience
- Bishopric
- Ordinance
- Doctrine
- Luther
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
PENANCE, noun. A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
PENANCE, noun. A sacrament in some Christian churches.
PENANCE, noun. (obsolete) repentance
PENANCE, noun. (obsolete) pain; sorrow; suffering
PENANCE, verb. To impose penance; to punish.
Dictionary definition
PENANCE, noun. Remorse for your past conduct.
PENANCE, noun. A Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution.
PENANCE, noun. Voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing.
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.