Thesaurus / penance
FEEDBACKHow to use penance in a sentence
To the world, I was fat and unfit and had to go to the gym as penance.
THE APPEAL AND THE SHORTCOMINGS OF WOMEN-ONLY GYMSCHIKA EKEMEZIEOCTOBER 8, 2021VOXThose who have somehow broken the laws of this country remain in some of them and this is their abode of penance.
LOCKED UP IN THE LAND OF LIBERTY: PART IYARIEL VALDÉS GONZÁLEZJULY 7, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEYour penance will be having to listen to your friend’s explanation, even if it unintentionally seems to confirm her guilt.
MISS MANNERS: FRIEND MIGHT BE LYING, BUT YOU WERE DEFINITELY RUDEJUDITH MARTIN, NICHOLAS MARTIN, JACOBINA MARTINAPRIL 8, 2021WASHINGTON POSTI attended, and hearkened; no man speaketh what is good, there is none that doth penance for his sin, saying: What have I done?
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSIt seemed to him as if no punishment or penance could atone for such deception and for so great a crime.
SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLANDMany a fish is mad after the bait; but when he is hooked, he finds his penance, even though the line should break.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCERThe Church adjudged Simone heretic, and condemned her for salutary penance to the bread of suffering and the water of affliction.
THE MERRIE TALES OF JACQUES TOURNEBROCHEANATOLE FRANCEAnd you look as if you were doing penance, or something—you've got such a superior expression!
THE SUNBRIDGE GIRLS AT SIX STAR RANCHELEANOR H. (ELEANOR HODGMAN) PORTERI look for no penance in this life, Reverend Mother, beyond such as may be imposed upon me.
FIFTY CONTEMPORARY ONE-ACT PLAYSVARIOUSAlas, it may be, she will impose on herself some rigid penance, in the hope that God may alleviate the sufferings of her brother!
MY TEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENTSILVIO PELLICOWORDS RELATED TO PENANCE
- abuse
- amercement
- beating
- castigation
- chastening
- chastisement
- comeuppance
- confiscation
- correction
- deprivation
- disciplinary action
- discipline
- forfeit
- forfeiture
- gallows
- hard work
- infliction
- just desserts
- lumps
- maltreatment
- mortification
- mulct
- ostracism
- pain
- penance
- proof
- punitive measures
- purgatory
- reparation
- retribution
- rod
- rough treatment
- sanction
- sequestration
- short shrift
- slave labor
- suffering
- torture
- trial
- unhappiness
- victimization
- what for
- abuses
- amercements
- beatings
- castigation
- chastenings
- chastisement
- comeuppances
- confiscations
- corrections
- deprivations
- disciplinary actions
- disciplines
- forfeits
- forfeitures
- gallows
- hard works
- inflictions
- just desserts
- lumps
- maltreatment
- mortifications
- mulcts
- ostracism
- pains
- penance
- proofs
- punitive measures
- purgatories
- reparations
- retribution
- rods
- rough treatments
- sanctions
- sequestrations
- short shrifts
- slave labors
- sufferings
- tortures
- trials
- unhappiness
- victimization
- what fors
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