- Atonement - Penitence - Self-punishment - Repentance. - Pain; sorrow; suffering. - 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. - To impose penance; to punish.