PENANCE in a Sentence
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16 example sentences for PENANCE, such as:
1. We prayed and did penance together.
2. He was still, indeed, doing penance for it.
3. From that period his penance had become severe.
4. It would be no great penance,' said Rosa Dartle, 'for your crimes.
5. As a penance, she said she would buy them all a box of chocolates.
2. He was still, indeed, doing penance for it.
3. From that period his penance had become severe.
4. It would be no great penance,' said Rosa Dartle, 'for your crimes.
5. As a penance, she said she would buy them all a box of chocolates.
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Meanings and Examples of PENANCE
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penance
n. a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
n. remorse for your past conduct
Classic Sentence:
1 "Confess your sins and do penance for them in sorrow and contrition," Ellen had told her a hundred times and, in this crisis, Ellen's religious training came back and gripped her.
2 And, for her penance, there would be the dreadful sight of Melanie's face changing from fond love and trust to incredulous horror and repulsion.
3 She remembered with dread Rhett's remark that he would even join their damned Klan to be respectable, though he hoped God would not lay so heavy a penance on his shoulders.
4 He was still, indeed, doing penance for it.
5 Be that as it may, if our good senator was a political sinner, he was in a fair way to expiate it by his night's penance.
6 It is probable that there was an idea of penance in this mode of occupation, and that she offered up a real sacrifice of enjoyment in devoting so many hours to such rude handiwork.
7 A frowzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this forlorn creation of Barnard, and it had strewn ashes on its head, and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere dust-hole.
8 It would be no great penance,' said Rosa Dartle, 'for your crimes.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
9 In some sisterhood of the strictest order, shalt thou have time for prayer and fitting penance, and that repentance not to be repented of.
10 From that period his penance had become severe.
11 Poor Jo looked abashed, and silently chafed the end of her nose with the stiff handkerchief, as if performing a penance for her misdemeanors.
12 He knelt to say his penance, praying in a corner of the dark nave; and his prayers ascended to heaven from his purified heart like perfume streaming upwards from a heart of white rose.
13 The vocal mothers consult after each confession and inflict the penance aloud.
Example Sentence:
1 We prayed and did penance together.
2 As a penance, she said she would buy them all a box of chocolates.
3 He had done penance for his sins; we should forgive him.