Sentence examples for the penance from inspiring English sources
noun
A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
But he despises the sentence and the penance.
He was surprised at the size of the penance and she was burning with guilt.
After all, "The Priest can be fake as long as the penance is real".
The penance books were condemned and replaced by new ones that were more closely related to tradition.
Felice stubbornly lives out her gritty existence as a solemn oath of self-punishment, one she never speaks of (that's part of the penance).
The penance that is necessary here is not the obligation of the church at large in the United States, but the responsibility of the bishops ourselves.
The detailed descriptions of the penances that inflicted upon themselves after their expulsion from Eden suggest an ascetic influence.
Even then, the subject and the imagery were hardly original: the Sadean château; the mysterious, priapic confraternity; the female initiates — temple whores — who reverently acquiesce in the penances imposed by their priestly dominators.
The Third Lateran Council, in 1179, outlawed sodomy and the love that dare not speak its name, and the penances for transgression became severe.
Such is the Giants' penance for winning the National Football Conference East last season.
They are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, penance (reconciliation), anointing of the sick, marriage, and holy orders.
