penance

How To Use penance In A Sentence

• Cratyn was so annoyingly devout, he probably felt the need for penance if he had an impure thought. TREASON KEEP
• And of everych of these sins it behoveth them to be shriven of their priests, and to pay great sum of silver for their penance. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
• There are similarities in the practices of both sects: initiation is by tearing out the hair, and the lifestyle is one of extreme austerity involving nakedness, penances, and ordeals.
• If he did, a public penance would be imposed and his sin would be absolved.
• For instance, if in an emotional dream you injured someone intentionally, you could perform a simple penance the next day to atone, such as fasting one meal.
• At the church gates is the historical _jougs_, a place of penance for the neck of detected sinners, and the historical _louping-on stane_, from which Dutch-built lairds and farmers climbed into the saddle. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
• I find it difficult to keep still during the preces but I do like the custom of kneeling for the initial Gloria after the Deus in adiutorium and then kissing the bookrest as a sign of penance. Archive 2009-09-01
• They extended to religious observance and penance, or expiation, though in the later period there is a tendency to concentrate on what looks more today, in the west, like law.
• They confess sins, do penance and engage in bhakti and karma yoga to raise consciousness.
• We prayed and did penance together.