Both Uses
penance
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Sweet Far Thing
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- Our headmistress allots me thirty conduct marks, and in penance, I am to do her bidding for a week.†
Chpt 4 *
- She's a few days of penance left, by my ledger.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(penance) an act that shows sorrow for wrongdoing -- such as expressing regret, asking for forgiveness, or trying to make up for the harm done
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)