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penance

n. [OF. penance, peneance, L. paenitentia repentance. See Penitence.]1. Repentance. (Wyclif (Luke xv. 7).)

2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. (Chaucer.)

3. (Eccl.) 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. (Schaff-Herzog Encyc.)

And bitter penance, with an iron whip. (Spenser.)

Quoth he, The man hath penance done, And penance more will do. (Coleridge.)

4. Any act performed by a person to atone for an offense to another; an act of atonement. ()

v. t. To impose penance; to punish. (Keats.)