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(), n.[OF. penance, peneance, L. paenitentia repentance. See Penitence.] 1. Repentance. [Obs.] Wyclif (Luke xv. 7). 2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. [Obs.] "Joy or penance he feeleth none." Chaucer. 3. (Eccl.) 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. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. And bitter penance, with an iron whip. Spenser. Quoth he, "The man hath penance done, And penance more will do." Coleridge. Pen"ance v. t.[imp. & p. p.Penanced ().] To impose penance; to punish. "Some penanced lady elf." Keats. スポンサード リンク
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