We found 34 dictionaries that define the word
penance:
General (26 matching dictionaries)
- penance: Merriam-Webster.com
- penance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- penance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- penance: Collins English Dictionary
- penance: Vocabulary.com
- Penance, penance: Wordnik
- penance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- penance: Wiktionary
- penance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
- penance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
- penance: Infoplease Dictionary
- penance: Dictionary.com
- penance: Online Etymology Dictionary
- penance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
- Penance (Catholic Church), Penance (TV series), Penance (Thunderbolts), Penance (X-Men), Penance (band), Penance (comics), Penance (disambiguation), Penance (film), Penance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
- Penance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
- penance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
- penance: Rhymezone
- Penance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
- penance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
- penance: Free Dictionary
- penance: Mnemonic Dictionary
- penance: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
- penance: Dictionary/thesaurus
Business (2 matching dictionaries)
- Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
- penance: Legal dictionary
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- penance: Encyclopedia
Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
- online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
- Penance (as a Virtue): Catholic Encyclopedia
- Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
- Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)
Slang (1 matching dictionary)
- penance: Urban Dictionary
(Note: See
penanced as well.)
▸ noun: A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
▸ noun: A sacrament in some Christian churches.
▸ noun: Any instrument of self-punishment.
▸ noun: (obsolete) repentance
▸ noun: (obsolete) pain; sorrow; suffering
▸ verb: To impose penance; to punish.
repentance,
penitence,
self-abasement,
self-mortification,
expiation,
self-punishment,
piation,
reparation,
atonement,
penitent,
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public,
severe,
great,
long,
private,
canonical,
heavy,
hard,
true,
austere,
rigorous
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