penance

• You will say to-day for your penance, the Penitential Psalms, and the Litany of the Saints. —  En Route
• To give me courage my father would tell of the unbearably freezing baths he had himself been through in his younger days Another penance was the drinking of milk. —  My Reminiscences
• Indeed, in no long time the fame of his penance was noised abroad, and multitudes came, as they had come at Ancyra, to see with their own eyes what there was of truth in the strange story they had heard. —  A Child's Book of Saints
• If the guilty person should show sincere proofs of penitence, or by liberal giving of alms made satisfactory recompense for wrongs done, his penance might be eased, or the term of his excommunication shortened, and his Church privileges partly or wholly restored. —  The Life of the Waiting Soul in the Intermediate State
• This either touched or tickled the mob--it does not matter which--who protected Curll whilst he stood on high from further outrage, and when his penance was over bore him on their shoulders to an adjacent tavern, where (it is alleged) he got right royally drunk. —  Obiter Dicta Second Series

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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