1. Remorse for your past conduct
   - repentance, penitence 
2. A Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution 
3. Voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
   - self-mortification, self-abasement

Derived forms: penances

Type of: compunction, penalisation [Brit], penalization, penalty, punishment, remorse, sacrament, self-reproach

Encyclopedia: Penance Penance, Sacrament of

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