01 n. Repentance.
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Repentance.[Obs.]
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Pain; sorrow; suffering.[Obs.]
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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, imposed by a confessor or other ecclesiastical authority. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.(Eccl.)“And bitter penance, with an iron whip.” — Spenser.“Quoth he, “The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.”” — Coleridge.
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Any act performed by a person to atone for an offense to another; an act of atonement.[Colloq.]