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📖 Определения и значения для слова penance

📒 an act that you give yourself to do, or that a priest gives you to do, in order to show that you are sorry for something you have done wrong

  • an act of penance
  • penance for something to do penance for your sins
  • in penance She kneeled at her mother's feet in penance.

📒 something that you have to do even though you do not like doing it

  • She regards living in New York as a penance; she hates big cities.
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