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单词 penance
释义 penance
 —penanceless,  adj.  
 /pen"euhns/,  n.  
  1. a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin.
  2. a penitential discipline imposed by church authority.
  3. a sacrament, as in the Roman Catholic Church, consisting in a confession of sin, made with sorrow and with the intention of amendment, followed by the forgiveness of the sin.
 [1250-1300; ME penaunce < AF; OF peneance < L paenitentia PENITENCE]
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