"penance" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɛn.əns/ Audio: en-us-penance.ogg Forms: penances [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English penaunce, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French peneance, from Latin paenitentia (“repentance, penitence”). Doublet of penitence. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*peh₁-}}, {{inh|en|enm|penaunce}} Middle English penaunce, {{der|en|xno|-}} Anglo-Norman, {{der|en|fro|peneance}} Old French peneance, {{der|en|la|paenitentia||repentance, penitence}} Latin paenitentia (“repentance, penitence”), {{doublet|en|penitence}} Doublet of penitence Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} penance (countable and uncountable, plural penances)
  1. A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (voluntary self-imposed punishment): покая́ние (pokajánie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), penitència (Catalan), 苦修 (kŭ xiū) (Chinese), 苦行 (kŭ xíng) (Chinese), pønitense [common-gender] (Danish), boetedoening (Dutch), pénitence (French), penitencia [feminine] (Galician), მონანიება (monanieba) (Georgian), Buße [feminine] (German), Bußleistung [feminine] (German), Bußübung [feminine] (German), Bußwerk [neuter] (German), Bußverfahren [neuter] (German), Sühnung [feminine] (German), Selbstkasteiung [feminine] (German), Pönitenz [feminine] (German), प्रायश्चित (prāyaścit) (Hindi), तपस्या (tapasyā) [feminine] (Hindi), vezeklés (Hungarian), aithrí [feminine] (Irish), penitenza (Italian), 難行 (nangyou) (alt: なんぎょう) (Japanese), 苦行 (kugyou) (alt: くぎょう) (Japanese), 難行苦行 (nangyou-kugyou) (alt: なんぎょうくぎょう) (Japanese), покаја́ние (pokajánie) [neuter] (Macedonian), покају́вање (pokajúvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), rīpenetātanga (Maori), bot (Norwegian), peniténcia [feminine] (Occitan), pentiment [masculine] (Occitan), توبه (tobe) (Persian), pokuta [feminine] (Polish), penitência [feminine] (Portuguese), pocăință (Romanian), искупле́ние (iskuplénije) [neuter] (Russian), peanas [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), pokora (Serbo-Croatian), penitencia (Spanish), bot [common-gender] (Swedish), penitens [common-gender] (Swedish), pälśalñe (Tocharian B)
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  2. A sacrament in some Christian churches that involves penitence (remorse plus restitution via prayer). Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Religion Translations (sacrament in some churches): penitència [feminine] (Catalan), 修和圣事 (xiū hé shèng shì) (Chinese), 和好圣事 (hé hǎo shèng shì) (Chinese), berouw (Dutch), penitentie (Dutch), katumus (Finnish), pénitence [feminine] (French), Bußsakrament [neuter] (German), aithrí [feminine] (Irish), penitenza [feminine] (Italian), penitência [feminine] (Portuguese), penitencia [feminine] (Spanish)
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  3. Any instrument of self-punishment. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  4. (obsolete) repentance Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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  5. (obsolete) pain; sorrow; suffering Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: penitence, atonement Coordinate_terms: prayaschitta (english: penance in Hinduism)

Verb

IPA: /ˈpɛn.əns/ Audio: en-us-penance.ogg Forms: penances [present, singular, third-person], penancing [participle, present], penanced [participle, past], penanced [past]
Etymology: From Middle English penaunce, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French peneance, from Latin paenitentia (“repentance, penitence”). Doublet of penitence. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*peh₁-}}, {{inh|en|enm|penaunce}} Middle English penaunce, {{der|en|xno|-}} Anglo-Norman, {{der|en|fro|peneance}} Old French peneance, {{der|en|la|paenitentia||repentance, penitence}} Latin paenitentia (“repentance, penitence”), {{doublet|en|penitence}} Doublet of penitence Head templates: {{en-verb}} penance (third-person singular simple present penances, present participle penancing, simple past and past participle penanced)
  1. To impose penance; to punish.
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Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.