All 3 Uses of
penance
in
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
- Their interesting, almost too interesting conversation must be broken up for a time, but slight was the penance compared with the happiness which brought it on!†
Chpt 20 *
- The others returned, the room filled again, benches were reclaimed and repossessed, and another hour of pleasure or of penance was to be sat out, another hour of music was to give delight or the gapes, as real or affected taste for it prevailed.†
Chpt 20
- From that period his penance had become severe.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
an act that shows sorrow for wrongdoing -- such as expressing regret, asking for forgiveness, or trying to make up for the harm done