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penance 音標拼音: [p'ɛnəns] n. 懺悔,悔過,贖罪,苦修
vt. 使以苦行贖罪 懺悔,悔過,贖罪,苦修使以苦行贖罪 penance n 1: remorse for your past conduct [ synonym: { repentance}, { penitence}, { penance}] 2: a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution 3: voluntary self- punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing [ synonym: { penance}, { self- mortification}, { self- abasement}] Penance \ Pen" ance\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Penanced}.] To impose penance; to punish. " Some penanced lady elf." -- Keats. [ 1913 Webster]
Penance \ Pen" ance\, n. [ OF. penance, peneance, L. paenitentia repentance. See { Penitence}.] 1. Repentance. [ Obs.] -- Wyclif ( Luke xv. 7). [ 1913 Webster] 2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. [ Obs.] " Joy or penance he feeleth none." -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] And bitter penance, with an iron whip. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] Quoth he, " The man hath penance done, And penance more will do." -- Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Hence: Any act performed by a person to atone for an offense to another; an act of atonement. [ Colloq.] [ PJC] 59 Moby Thesaurus words for " penance": Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, abject apology, amends, apology, asceticism, atone, atonement, attrition, baptism, change of heart, cold purgatorial fires, compensation, compunction, confirmation, contrition, deathbed repentance, do penance, extreme unction, fasting, flagellation, hair shirt, heartfelt apology, holy orders, lustration, maceration, make amends, matrimony, mea culpa, mortification, pay, penal retribution, penalization, penalty, penitence, penitential act, penitential exercise, penitently, price, punishment, purgation, purgatory, reformation, regret, remorse, remorsefulness, reparation, repentance, rue, ruth, sackcloth and ashes, saeta, self- mortification, self- punishment, seven sacraments, suffer, suffering, the Eucharist, wearing a hairshirt
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