penance
Example Sentences
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At 63, Father Diman entered a Benedictine abbey in Scotland, where he cleaned corridors, dug ditches and performed penances with novices of 17.
From Time Magazine Archive
But just such penances are proposed in the latest issue of Rome's influential Vita Pastorale by the clerical monthly's editor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before beginning to eat, devout dieters ask indulgence of those at their table for the caloric sins they are about to commit, specifying both their diets and their self-imposed penances.
From Time Magazine Archive
Occupied for the first time in its history, Japan bent, bowed and stretched to the penances of defeat.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was young, kind, tolerant and easy on the penances.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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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