penance
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What is that Penance Stare thing he’s doing?’
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Penance is a bubbly and awkward and granted the gift of technological innovation, through which she manipulates electricity.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2021
Penance for Catholics starts with lament, public acknowledgment of sin and wrongdoing, recognition of it both by the wrongdoer and the community.
From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2019
They brought out a horse, Penance, who was outfitted in goalie pads and trained to kneel reverently.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2019
They are sick of such strange frightful People that they meet; one is so awkward and another so disagreeable, that it looks like a Penance to breathe the same Air with them.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest
Vocabulary lists containing penance
Fahrenheit 451
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The Poet X
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The Joy Luck Club
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