Penances synonyms

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penalties
(Soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
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sufferings
The bearing or undergoing of pain, distress, or injury
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mortifications
Death or decay of living tissue; gangrene.
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compunctions
A strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt:
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reparations
A making of amends; making up for a wrong or injury
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compensations
The definition of compensation is something of value given in exchange for something else.
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retributions
Punishment for evil done
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punishments (related)
A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
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Penances Sentence Examples

  • And law in plenty was forthcoming, so soon as the Church developed the discipline of public confessions followed by appropriate penances for each fault.

  • (13) They put no faith in rites or ceremonies, nor do they believe in penances as instrumental in obtaining the grace of God.

  • In all these lesser orders may be discerned the tendency of a return to the elements of Eastern monasticism discarded by St Benedict - to the eremitical life; to the purely contemplative life with little or no factor of work; to the undertaking of rigorous bodily austerities and penances - it was at this time that the practice of self-inflicted scourgings as a penitential exercise was introduced.

  • They were always mitigations of satisfactions or penances which had been imposed by the church as outward signs of inward sorrow, tests of fitness for pardon, and the needful precedents of absolution.

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