Penance

(noun.) a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution.

(noun.) voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing.

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• I think that after the war there will have to be some great penance done for the killing. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• In some sisterhood of the strictest order, shalt thou have time for prayer and fitting penance, and that repentance not to be repented of. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Seek to prayer and penance, and mayest thou find acceptance! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• She did a few rows every day, by way of penance for the expiation of her sins. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Holy men have bidden penitents like you to hasten their path upward by penance, self-denial, and difficult good works. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Nay, said the Friar, if thou dost retract vows made in favour of holy Church, thou must do penance. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• These worthies suffer in the flesh and do penance all their lives, I suppose, but they look like consummate famine-breeders. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Gregory the Great urged the people to do penance, and a general procession was formed. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She must be under some sort of penance, inflicted either by the Campbells or herself. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• She went to Mrs. Goddard's accordingly the very next day, to undergo the necessary penance of communication; and a severe one it was. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• It's more than a Catholic penance, and does no more good. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Likewise, on John's offering a suggestion which didn't meet his views, his face became overcast and reproachful, as enjoining penance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Such a penance as I have been enduring, while you were sitting here so composed and so happy! 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Be that as it may, if our good senator was a political sinner, he was in a fair way to expiate it by his night's penance. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Here, she must be leading a life of privation and penance; there it would have been all enjoyment. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• It is the same case with those penances, which men inflict on themselves for their past sins and failings. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

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