Found 3 items, similar to penance.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: penance penebusan dosa
English → English (WordNet) Definition: penance penance n 1: remorse for your past conduct [syn: repentance, penitence] 2: a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution 3: voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing [syn: self-mortification, self-abasement]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Penance 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. 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] Penance \Pen"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penanced.] To impose penance; to punish. “Some penanced lady elf.” --Keats. [1913 Webster]