penance
English Thesaurus
1. a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution (noun.act)
hypernym | : | sacrament, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | confession, |
definition | : | (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution (noun.act) |
2. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing (noun.act)
3. remorse for your past conduct (noun.feeling)
derivation | : | regret, repent, rue, |
definition | : | feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about (verb.emotion) |
derivation | : | penitent, repentant, |
definition | : | feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds (adj.all) |
derivation | : | penitentiary, |
definition | : | used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers (adj.all) |
derivation | : | regret, repent, rue, |
definition | : | feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about (verb.emotion) |
derivation | : | penitent, repentant, |
definition | : | feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds (adj.all) |
derivation | : | penitentiary, |
definition | : | used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers (adj.all) |
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