penance
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The reader is invited to follow her often frightening pursuit of spiritual penance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
“If anything he had some kind of remorse and was on his penance campaign. Part of resolving himself was helping with noble endeavors,” Tramo said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026
Concluding that Didion left these pages behind so they would eventually take shape as the penance of an unreliable narrator is surely too tidy.
From Salon • Jun. 14, 2025
Well, they only do in one respect, and that seems to be Röhl’s main fixation: They’re all associated with attempts to work through and do penance for Nazi Germany’s crimes.
From Slate • Jan. 5, 2025
The other was like a chunk of burnt pine-log he was carrying along as a penance for some obscure sin.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
Vocabulary lists containing penance
Fahrenheit 451
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The Poet X
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The Joy Luck Club
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