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Penance

['penəns] or ['pɛnəns]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution.

(noun.) voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing.

布鲁克整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Repentance.

(n.) Pain; sorrow; suffering.

(n.) A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.

(v. t.) To impose penance; to punish.

亨廷顿編輯

同義詞及近義詞:

n. Punishment (self-inflicted or imposed by ecclesiastical authority), mortification, maceration, humiliation, penalty.

琼整理

解釋/意思:

n. repentance: external acts performed to manifest sorrow for sin to seek to atone for the sin and to avert the punishment which even after the guilt has been remitted may still remain due to the offence—also the sacrament by which absolution is conveyed (involving contrition confession and satisfaction): any instrument of self-punishment.—v.t. to impose penance on: to punish.

編輯:普鲁登斯

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