penance 的定义
- a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin.
- a penitential discipline imposed by church authority.
- a sacrament, as in the Roman Catholic Church, consisting in a confession of sin, made with sorrow and with the intention of amendment, followed by the forgiveness of the sin.
penance 近义词
reparation for wrong
更多penance例句
- Those who have somehow broken the laws of this country remain in some of them and this is their abode of penance.
- Your penance will be having to listen to your friend’s explanation, even if it unintentionally seems to confirm her guilt.
- It is will always be my penance now always to believe that I didn't do enough for my friend.
- Penance is available at the Newsstand, Miami and at alldayeveryday.com for $45—$500.
- “The pain is her penance,” says one of them, amid the screams of labor.
- Pay your penance while demonstrating a commitment to public service.
- The company will be forced to endure penance not only for the spill, but paradoxically for the sunflower.
- I attended, and hearkened; no man speaketh what is good, there is none that doth penance for his sin, saying: What have I done?
- It seemed to him as if no punishment or penance could atone for such deception and for so great a crime.
- Many a fish is mad after the bait; but when he is hooked, he finds his penance, even though the line should break.
- The Church adjudged Simone heretic, and condemned her for salutary penance to the bread of suffering and the water of affliction.
- And you look as if you were doing penance, or something—you've got such a superior expression!