Sample Sentences for
penance
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    Public self-whipping as penance for sins was common in Europe until the Renaissance.
    penance = making up for wrongdoing
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    In my mind, I'd already served my penance.  (source)
    penance = self-punishment or other atonement (action to make up for wrong-doing)
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    The other was like a chunk of burnt pine log he was carrying along as a penance for some obscure sin.  (source)
    penance = self-punishment
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    I shouted, "there will be no punishment, there will be no penance!"  (source)
    penance = self-punishment or other atonement (action to make up for wrong-doing)
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    The evil had broken out once or twice in the father's family, long before Lady Steyne's sins had begun, or her fasts and tears and penances had been offered in their expiation.†  (source)
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    I knelt at the altar rail and said my penance.  (source)
    penance = prayer to make up for wrong-doing
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    Their virtues are penances.†  (source)
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    It was her penance to go back, not her due.†  (source)
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    We are more distinctly conscious that rude penances are out of the question for gentlemen in an enlightened age, and that mortal sin is not incompatible with an appetite for muffins.†  (source)
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    So her penance was extra-good: She promised to take me to the mall and buy me football cards.†  (source)
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    Meg pardoned him, and Mrs. March's grave face relaxed, in spite of her efforts to keep sober, when she heard him declare that he would atone for his sins by all sorts of penances, and abase himself like a worm before the injured damsel.†  (source)
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    The longer you hide, the sterner the penance.†  (source)
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    Then do your penances that you may be cleansed.†  (source)
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