All 3 Uses of
penance
in
The Fountainhead
- They did not look like workers, they looked like a chain gang serving an unspeakable penance for some unspeakable crime.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- The great penance.†
Chpt 4.14
- But I have sponsored him under the masthead of my paper, and if public penance is a strange, humiliating act to perform in our modern age, such is the punishment I impose upon myself hereby.†
Chpt 4.15
Definition:
an act that shows sorrow for wrongdoing -- such as expressing regret, asking for forgiveness, or trying to make up for the harm done