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Definition

self-punishment, prayer, or other atonement (action to make up for wrong-doing)

or:

a religious sacrament (practice) often called confession involving confession, forgiveness, and atonement

prayers of penance

penance = self-punishment, prayer, or other atonement (action to make up for wrong-doing)

or:

a religious sacrament (practice) often called confession involving confession, forgiveness, and atonement

A foreign policy of penance was counterproductive.
Public self-whipping as penance for sins was common in Europe until the Renaissance.
It's not penance if there isn't genuine sorrow for wrong-doing.
The other was like a chunk of burnt pine log he was carrying along as a penance for some obscure sin.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

penance = self-punishment

I shouted, "there will be no punishment, there will be no penance!"
Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima

penance = self-punishment or other atonement (action to make up for wrong-doing)

In my mind, I'd already served my penance.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember

penance = self-punishment or other atonement (action to make up for wrong-doing)

I knelt at the altar rail and said my penance.
David Almond -- Clay

penance = prayer to make up for wrong-doing

I'm ready to smash everything to smithereens And make all kneel in schoolboy penance.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
He sewed to the end of the sinew and drew another strand from his mouth, remembering the penance trip up the mountain.
Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die
"Speaking generally," he said, "no penance is like having one's picture done."
David McCullough -- John Adams
The great demon bowed his horned head and kneeled, his leathery wings folded about him in an attitude of penance.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
He intended to go on from this place—visited as an act of penance—into another part of the country altogether.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
"You come around to the hotel to-morrow," she said, as sort of penance for error.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
She wanted to do penance.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
And, for her penance, there would be the dreadful sight of Melanie's face changing from fond love and trust to incredulous horror and repulsion.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
I am the first man who would not do penance for my virtues or let them be used as the tools of my destruction.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
This is my penance, Cersei told herself.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
Maybe my ice-cold environment was the perfect penance for my stupidity.
Dave Peizer -- A Man Named Dave
Choose your revenge yourself; Impose me to what penance your invention Can lay upon my sin: yet sinn'd I not But in mistaking.
William Shakespeare -- Much Ado About Nothing

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