pen´ance
n. [OF. penance, peneance, L. paenitentia repentance. See Penitence.]
1. Repentance. [Obs.] Wyclif (Luke xv. 7).
2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. [Obs.] ´Joy or penance he feeleth none.´ 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. 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.
1. Repentance. [Obs.] Wyclif (Luke xv. 7).
2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. [Obs.] ´Joy or penance he feeleth none.´ 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. 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.
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