penance

• a Catholic sacrament
• Pain
• remorse for your past conduct
• voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
• Repentance
• A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church
• To impose penance

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