penitency

"I won't do it again," promised Harold, with mock penitency.

The Girl Scouts' Good Turn Edith Lavell

And for to (take our penitency) (do out penance there) {And} {We} boose the water cold.

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

"Hereby", he said, "it appears that either Greenwell told you out of confession, and then there would be no secrecy: or, if it were in confession, he professed no penitency, and therefore you could not absolve him."

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

To help thee the better to perform these three parts of penitency, thou mayest diligently read such chapters and portions of the holy

The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842

This penitency consists in three things -- First, An inward insight of sin, and sense of mercy; Secondly, A bewailing of thy vile state;

The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842

Thus far of the first part of repentance, which is penitency.

The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842

[2818] to pray first to God with all submission and penitency, to confess their sins, and then to use physic.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Execution Mr. Thompson Minister at Brantry, [371] and J.P. [372] her former Master took pains with her to bring her to repentance, And she utterly denyed her guilt of Witchcraft: yet justifyed God for bringing her to that punishment: for she had when a single woman played the harlot, and being with Child used means to destroy the fruit of her body to conceal her sin and shame, and although she did not effect it, yet she was a Murderer in the sight of God for her endeavours, and shewed great penitency for that sin; but owned nothing of the crime laid to her charge.

A Modest Inquiry Into The Nature Of Witchcraft, By John Hale, 1702 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 1697