penance
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Kept in prison for a year or two, their resolution broke down one by one; they successively confessed their half-forgotten guilt and were duly penanced.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles
The Waldenses had great reputation as skilful leeches, and two men who had called them in for their wives and children were penanced with the pilgrimages of Puy, St. Gilles, and Compostella.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
Even the smallest derelictions of this sort were rigorously penanced.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
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