meaning of penances

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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