penitence | | |
n. (feeling) | 1. penance, penitence, repentance | remorse for your past conduct. |
| ~ compunction, remorse, self-reproach | a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed). |
penance | | |
n. (act) | 1. penance | a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution. |
| ~ remission of sin, absolution, remittal, remission | the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance. |
| ~ sacrament | a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction. |
| ~ confession | (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution. |
n. (act) | 2. penance, self-abasement, self-mortification | voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing. |
| ~ penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment | the act of punishing. |
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