Has anyone ever paid a higher penance for telling a lie?
He devoted his life to helping the poor as a penance for his past crimes.
She kneeled at her mother's feet in penance.
He decided to do public penance for his sins.
• A Catholic sacrament
• Act of contrition
• Amends
• Atonement for sins
• Atoning punishment
• Church discipline
• Church sacrament
• Expiation
• Follower of sin, sometimes
• Hail Marys, often
• Hair shirt occasion
• Hair shirt wearer's activity
• One of the sacraments
• One of the seven sacraments
• Punishment for sin
• Remorseful act
• Repentance
• Saying five Hail Marys, e.g.
• Sinner's punishment
• Sinners do it
• Sinners may do it
• Something to do
• Spiritual punishment
• The price you pay
• What a sinner may do
• What some sinners do
• Remorse for your past conduct
• A Catholic sacrament
• Repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
• Voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
to do /to perform/ penance for smth. - принести покаяние в чём-л., исполнить епитимью
to do smth. as a penance - делать что-л. в наказание
1. церк. епитимья, покаяние
to do /to perform/ ~ for smth. - принести покаяние в чём-л., исполнить епитимью
2. раскаяние
3. искупление
to do smth. as a ~ - делать что-л. в наказание
2. {ʹpenəns} v церк.налагать епитимью
1) покаяние; открытие верующим своих грехов священнику в обмен на прощение от Господа;
2) по Э. Дюркгейму — ритуал репрессивного права, характерный для традиционного общества.
to do penance — подвергнуться епитимии
1) покарання, кара; церк. епітимія
2) накладати епітимію