Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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penance , penant.
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Examples
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Enioyned by the waie of penaunce, to go a grasing like
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The sixteth Sacramente is penaunce or repentaunce, giuen of
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And the monkes ben Arrabyenes, or men of Greece: and there is a grot covent; and alle thei ben as heremytes; and thei drynken no wyn, but zif it be on principalle festes: and thei ben fulle devoute men, and lyven porely and sympely, with joutes84 and with dates: and thei don gret absteynence and penaunce.
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And the monkes ben Arrabyenes, or men of Greece: and there is a grot covent; and alle thei ben as heremytes; and thei drynken no wyn, but zif it be on principalle festes: and thei ben fulle devoute men, and lyven porely and sympely, with joutes530 and with dates: and thei don gret absteynence and penaunce.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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A felon is saved who had lived all his life in lies and thefts; he was saved at once "with-outen penaunce of purgatorie."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Whereunto if the said nobleman was not hedefull, he felt the dammage for penaunce of his inconsideration.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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That it is deuilishe doctrine, to enioyne to any sinner, actuall penaunce for sinne.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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And I am dyspleaseth therwith by reason of the whiche I do penaunce & wyll do.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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That person whiche by open denuntiation of the Churche, is rightly cut of from the vnitie of the Churche, and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faythfull as an Heathen and Publicane, vntill he be openly reconciled by penaunce, and receaued into the Churche by a iudge that hath aucthoritie thereto.
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In thilke dayes came Joon Baptist prechynge in the desert of Jude, saying, Do ye penaunce: for the kyngdom of heuens shall neigh.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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