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Quadragene :: Quadragene (n.) An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance..

Absolution :: Absolution (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) One who does penance.

Penitencer :: Penitencer (n.) A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases.

Penanceless :: Penanceless (a.) Free from penance.

Mortification :: Mortification (n.) Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body..

Mortifying :: Mortifying (a.) Subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as, mortifying penances..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (a.) Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance..

Woolward-going :: Woolward-going (n.) A wearing of woolen clothes next the skin as a matter of penance.

Penanced :: Penanced (imp. & p. p.) of Penanc.

Penitential :: Penitential (n.) A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book..

Penance :: Penance (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..

Trisacramentarian :: Trisacramentarian (n.) One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament..

Penitent :: Penitent (a.) Doing penance.

Penitential :: Penitential (a.) Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears..

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge..

Indulgence :: Indulgence (n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory..

Mortify :: Mortify (v. i.) To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.

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

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