| 单词 | penance |
| 释义 | penance (once / 896 pages) n Penance is the act of doing a good deed to make up for past wrongs. Shoveling your neighbor's sidewalk all winter could be your penance for not helping rake the leaves that dropped from your tree into his yard during the fall. Although the noun penance can mean any remorse for past mistakes, or any voluntary action meant to right the wrong, Penance, with a capital P, also specifically refers to a sacrament in the Catholic Church. When a person receives Penance, he or she confesses sins to a priest, and along with a blessing, receives an order to do something, such as say certain prayers. This assignment is also called penance. WORD FAMILYpenance: penances USAGE EXAMPLESBut it’s not all penance for the former neo-Nazis who met in Schleife, a village near the Polish border, in early November. Seattle Times(Dec 09, 2016) The U.S. was born in slavery, a national sin whose penance was bloodshed and divisions that continue to this day. Wall Street Journal(Dec 09, 2016) He paid penance during the World Cup in Brazil, he says, by shunning Fifa-supplied VIP tickets. The Guardian(Dec 04, 2016) 1n voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing Syn|Hyper self-abasement, self-mortification penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment the act of punishing 2n a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution Hypo|Hyper confession (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution shriftthe act of being shriven sacrament a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction 3n remorse for your past conduct Syn|Hyper penitence, repentance compunction, remorse, self-reproach a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) |
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