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How to use penance in a sentence

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Has he been ordered to stand up there in disgrace, as penance for dallying with Lady Hamilton and asking Hardy to kiss him?
The Augustinian monk had come to the correct conclusion that the entire scheme, including penance, was unbiblical.
The Mozarabic liturgy had perfected the deathbed penance more than any other liturgy.
I leave this record as penance for my own conscious, as my death draws nigh.
The large sculptural frieze is an attempt to portray a stringent penance witnessed both by heavenly hosts and the denizens of the netherworld.
It is a sign of grace, both a confession of sin and a penance by which forgiveness may be obtained.
As penance, I intend to make an actual pho sometime in the upcoming months.
Again, he vows to do penance by marrying Elizabeth and accepting her illegitimate son.
The only other things the monk might have were a pendant cross and a pair of shoes or sandals, although some went barefoot as a lifelong penance.
I'm doing my duty and my penance now, but I'll always be a woman who loves a good show.
Is confession really so good for the soul, especially when it requires no penance?
The head priest gave him blessed, medicated ghee to take in the early morning for 41 days while observing a penance.
He's doing an act of penance, and in the Hindu religion it's a renunciation.
How, for example, would you explain religious sacrifice and penance which are an important motivator for many non-western consumers?
A first step is for bishops to recommit themselves, in the spirit of penance and reconciliation, to the annual independent reviews.
But on the whole, I find the Church to be enormously helpful, particularly in the sacrament of penance.
The gospel called not for an act of penance but for a radical change of mind-set and an equally deep transformation of life.
And it is not just your neighbourhood parish priest who is due for confession, penance and civil punishment.
Thomas of Chobham, author of a thirteenth-century confessional manual on penance, addressed this issue directly in his work.
We are members of one another and it is entirely fitting for the Church as a whole to do penance for the sins of the clergy.
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He was at once ascetic and sensual, alternating between the hair-shirt of penance and the embraces of Catharine Sedley.
And for one who was now wallowing in the martyrology, penance was the mortification of the flesh.
Anselm answered him harshly that he was not obliged to do penance for his brother's sins.
Let not the penance for a rashness, to which fate urges me on, attach to my country, but to me.
No more than this is told of the unavailing penance of Jehoram the son of Ahab.
A whole year of sackcloth and ashes would not be penance for such iniquity.
A penance of seven years was imposed for perjury, with the additional penalty of setting free a bondsman or bondswoman.
In the course of his wanderings, in fulfilment of a vow of penance, Arjuna came to Manipur.
In his heart, while doing penance for his presumptuousness, he believed that he could lead regiments of men.
He was thrown into prison and, in 1572, was sentenced to penance and reclusion, thus rendering him ineligible.
They had done penance enough, fasting and waiting and standing all day long.
Poor Jo looked abashed, and silently chafed the end of her nose with the stiff handkerchief, as if performing a penance for her misdemeanors.
During their slow, toilful walks she appeared to be dragging with her for a penance the burden of that infirm bulk.
All the pangs of penance were in that sense of irrevocability.
If the prisoner was unremorseful, the consoler attempted to move him to penance.
Uriel consented to the penance, scarcely knowing what they asked of him.
You're parading your penance, as you call it, before the world.
I say because it is a part of my penance for the sin which I have sinned.
I suppose he's going to keep me waiting for days, as a penance.
Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.
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