meaning of penance
1. Repentance.
2. Pain; sorrow; suffering.
3. A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.
4. To impose penance; to punish.
5. a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
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