PenanceWordNet Explorer
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a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction
the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
(Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
the act of punishing
remorse for your past conduct
a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)