penance / ˈpɛn əns /

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penance 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin.
  2. a penitential discipline imposed by church authority.
  3. 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

n. 名词 noun

reparation for wrong

更多penance例句

  1. Those who have somehow broken the laws of this country remain in some of them and this is their abode of penance.
  2. Your penance will be having to listen to your friend’s explanation, even if it unintentionally seems to confirm her guilt.
  3. It is will always be my penance now always to believe that I didn't do enough for my friend.
  4. Penance is available at the Newsstand, Miami and at alldayeveryday.com for $45—$500.
  5. “The pain is her penance,” says one of them, amid the screams of labor.
  6. Pay your penance while demonstrating a commitment to public service.
  7. The company will be forced to endure penance not only for the spill, but paradoxically for the sunflower.
  8. I attended, and hearkened; no man speaketh what is good, there is none that doth penance for his sin, saying: What have I done?
  9. It seemed to him as if no punishment or penance could atone for such deception and for so great a crime.
  10. Many a fish is mad after the bait; but when he is hooked, he finds his penance, even though the line should break.
  11. The Church adjudged Simone heretic, and condemned her for salutary penance to the bread of suffering and the water of affliction.
  12. And you look as if you were doing penance, or something—you've got such a superior expression!