[なんぎょうくぎょう, nangyoukugyou] (n, vs) penance; hardship [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Penance \Pen"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Penanced}.]
To impose penance; to punish. "Some penanced lady elf."
--Keats.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Penance \Pen"ance\, n. [OF. penance, peneance, L. paenitentia
repentance. See {Penitence}.]
1. Repentance. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Luke xv. 7).
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2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. [Obs.] "Joy or penance he feeleth
none." --Chaucer.
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3. (Eccl.) 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, imposed by a confessor or other
ecclesiastical authority. Penance is the fourth of seven
sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. --Schaff-Herzog
Encyc.
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And bitter penance, with an iron whip. --Spenser.
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Quoth he, "The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do." --Coleridge.
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4. Hence: Any act performed by a person to atone for an
offense to another; an act of atonement. [Colloq.]
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
penance
n 1: remorse for your past conduct [syn: {repentance},
{penitence}, {penance}]
2: a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement
and absolution
3: voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some
wrongdoing [syn: {penance}, {self-mortification}, {self-
abasement}]
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