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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