All 6 Uses of
penance
in
Emma
- She went to Mrs. Goddard's accordingly the very next day, to undergo the necessary penance of communication; and a severe one it was.†
Chpt 1.17-18 *
- With the fortitude of a devoted novitiate, she had resolved at one-and-twenty to complete the sacrifice, and retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever.†
Chpt 2.1-2
- She was, in fact, beginning very much to wonder that she had ever thought him pleasing at all; and his sight was so inseparably connected with some very disagreeable feelings, that, except in a moral light, as a penance, a lesson, a source of profitable humiliation to her own mind, she would have been thankful to be assured of never seeing him again.†
Chpt 2.3-4
- Here, she must be leading a life of privation and penance; there it would have been all enjoyment.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- She must be under some sort of penance, inflicted either by the Campbells or herself.†
Chpt 2.15-16
- Harriet seemed ready to worship her friend for a sentence so satisfactory; and Emma was only saved from raptures and fondness, which at that moment would have been dreadful penance, by the sound of her father's footsteps.†
Chpt 3.11-12
Definition:
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(penance) self-punishment, prayer, or other action to make up for wrong-doing
or:
a religious practice (often called confession) involving confession, forgiveness, and atonement