Definitions for penance

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penance pen·ance

Spelling: [pen-uh ns]

IPA: /ˈpɛn əns/

Penance is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in penance (aceennp).

Definitions for penance

noun

1. a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin.
2. a penitential discipline imposed by church authority.
3. a sacrament, as in the Roman Catholic Church, consisting in a confession of sin, made with sorrow and with the intention of amendment, followed by the forgiveness of the sin.

Origin of penance

1250-1300; Middle English penaunce Anglo-French; Old French peneance Latin paenitentia penitence

Examples for penance

In prayer and penance and fasting he would find help and consolation.

"No penance at all, I assure you," answered Peter with something like a smile.

Pay your penance while demonstrating a commitment to public service.

It is will always be my penance now always to believe that I didn't do enough for my friend.

Let not the penance for a rashness, to which fate urges me on, attach to my country, but to me.

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I suppose he's going to keep me waiting for days, as a penance.

He forced himself to face them regularly as a penance and a corrective.

“The pain is her penance,” says one of them, amid the screams of labor.

I say because it is a part of my penance for the sin which I have sinned.