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Meaning Of Penance

  1. n.
    Repentance.
  2. n.
    Pain; sorrow; suffering.
  3. n.
    A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.
  4. v. t.
    To impose penance; to punish.



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