All 3 Uses of
penance
in
The Mill on the Floss
- And if he should do great penances, yet are they but little.†
Chpt 4.3 *
- Youth and health have withstood well the involuntary and voluntary hardships of her lot, and the nights in which she has lain on the hard floor for a penance have left no obvious trace; the eyes are liquid, the brown cheek is firm and round, the full lips are red.†
Chpt 5.1
- Ought she to shrink in this way from the long penance of life, which was all the possibility she had of lightening the load to some other sufferers, and so changing that passionate error into a new force of unselfish human love?†
Chpt 7.5
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