Sentence example with the word 'penance'

penance

abject apology, atonement, compensation, do penance, heartfelt apology, matrimony, penalization, penitently, reformation, repentance, self-mortification, the wearing a hairshirt

Definition n. remorse for your past conduct

Last update: August 16, 2015


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We have to do penance for our mistakes.   [Please select]

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The priest told me to say twenty Hail Marys as a penance for my sins.   [Please select]

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Because April spent most of her teenage years mistreating her mother, she felt it was her penance to provide care for her when she became elderly.    [Please select]

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Penance for their sins.   [Please select]

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LYNCH: I hope you gave the good father a penance.   [Please select]

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'Not if the penance is something to please someone else.'   [Please select]

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Jonny's penance for betraying his sister would last an eternity.   [Please select]

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The voice of penance and of grief came slow, embellished, tremulous.   [Please select]

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In prayer and penance and fasting he would find help and consolation.   [Please select]

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I must confess my fault and do my penance.   [Please select]

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"The day is cold, and this penance is too much for you."   [Please select]

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