Sentence examples for act of penance from inspiring English sources

In that sense, the book is an act of penance.

Or was this something more like an act of penance?

It was as if getting yelled at was a deliberate act of penance.

The constitution was an act of penance that cast the state in the role of saviour.

So next Sunday, he's going to murder blameless Father James as an enforced act of penance.

Laying himself this bare feels like an act of penance for surviving, and makes his character all the richer.

Amid the latest wave of scandal, Catholicism needed the magnetic John Paul, master of bold gestures and moving acts of penance.

In the Christian calendar, Easter follows Lent, the period of 40 days (not counting Sundays) before Easter, which traditionally is observed by acts of penance and fasting.

All acts of penance and austerity, such as prolonged fasts and abstinence from the comforts of life, have become part of the mujāhadah practice.

He'd fit into the Vatican," says McShane of a character whose only earthly pleasure, apart from self-aggrandisement, appears to be self-harm, whipping himself and indulging in other masochistic acts of penance.

Pollution often becomes identified with immoral or sinful behaviour and in such instances purification may be effected by punishment of the offender, by the offender's spiritual atonement, or by acts of penance and virtue, such as giving alms.