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penance

Roman Catholic sacrament, involving confession of sins and receiving absolution, and works performed (or punishment self-inflicted) in atonement for sin. Penance is worked out nowadays in terms of good deeds rather than routine repetition of prayers.



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There be monks in Russia, for penance, that will sit a whole night in a vessel of water, till they be engaged with hard ice.
That is my crime, Father Brown, and I don't know what penance you would inflict for it.
Goddard's accordingly the very next day, to undergo the necessary penance of communication; and a severe one it was.
 
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