Synonym: penitence, repentance, self-abasement, self-mortification. Similar words: maintenance, finance, penalty, pregnancy, financial, the death penalty, financial crisis, cancer. Meaning: ['penəns] 
n. 1. remorse for your past conduct 2. a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution 3. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing.
n. 1. remorse for your past conduct 2. a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution 3. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing. 
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31. Recession, they reason a penance for past profligacy.
32. He received an axe after doing penance for Shiva.
33. Healing Focus: Now works properly with Penance.
34. The formal remission of sin imparted by a priest, as in the sacrament of penance.
35. Dan led us in a group prayer of penance, and said a prayer of absolution.
36. Morin (1597-1659) published a famous work on the history of Holy orders, and a confused one on that of penance.
37. He had done penance for his sins; we should forgive him.
37. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
38. Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.
39. When a sinner seeks penance, he must visit a bishop and ask for it.
40. There are seven sacraments : Baptism, Confirmation, Penance, Holy Eucharist, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders and Matrimony.
41. Inner Focus: Now works properly with Mind Flay , Mind Sear, and Penance.
42. The sacrament of penance and the confession of sins are rather late innovations.
43. Billy: Sure. I'll just consider it penance(14) for my sins...
44. He was sent barefoot wearing only a hair shirt into the wilderness as a penance.
45. In America we let rich people run roughshod over the law, pay no penance, take no responsibility and let the taxpayers shoulder the burden!
46. Recession, they reason, must be a penance for past profligacy.
47. Jogging becomes a sort of penance for our sins of gluttony, greed, and waste.
48. A greater penance than even Zeus himself had placed on the Titans.
49. Still by an irresistible impulse I curse myself with an awful penance.
50. The king of the gods had to perform penance to atone for his transgression.
51. Now it is an indulgence corresponding to such a penance.
52. " You come around to the hotel to - morrow,'she said, as sort of penance for error.
53. Myrrh has been associated with bitter repentance , mortification of the flesh, and penance.
54. Gregory won everlasting fame by bending Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor, to his will, forcing the most powerful man in Europe to do penance before him at Canossa.
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