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penitency Now rare.|ˈpɛnɪtənsɪ|
[ad. L. pæni-, pœnitēntia: see penitence and -ency.]
The quality or condition of being penitent.
1. Penitence as a state; repentance.
c1450Seven Deadly Sins 117 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 218 The rote of an erbe I sholde vp hale, Men call it chastite; and pounde it with penytencie. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxii. §7 Their Fastings were partly in token of penitencie. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Unnat. Father Wks. ii. 139/1 Hee dyed with great penitency and remorce of Conscience. a1708Beveridge Thes. Theol. (1710) II. 275 Works of penitency. Humbling ourselves for sin, setting ourselves against it, turning ourselves from it. 1863Keble Bp. Wilson xix. 641 The penitency..of so conspicuous an adversary could not but encourage any favourable change..taking place in men's minds towards the Bishop.
†2. A penitential practice or discipline; = penitence 1, penance. Obs. rare.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxii. §13 Two kinds ther wer of publike penitencie, the one belonging to notorious offenders..the other appertaining to the whole church and vnto euery seuerall person whome the same containeth. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals iii. i. 217 Ecclesiasticks who formerly imploy'd their whole times in heaping up Penitencies and Fastings. 1676Warn. for Housekeepers 5–6 For to take our penitency, And boose the water cold. |