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penance   (TTS Sound)

The noun penance has 3 senses

• repentance, penitence, penance -- (remorse for your past conduct)


• penance -- (a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution)


• penance, self-mortification, self-abasement -- (voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing)