Word Meaning

Meaning of penance

- 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.

Crossword clue for penance

- Atonement
- Penitence
- Self-punishment