penance

Noun
  1. Remorse for your past conduct (synset 107552258)
    is a type of: compunction, remorse, self-reproach - a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
    same as: penitence, repentance
  2. A Catholic sacrament;
    Repentance and confession and atonement and absolution (synset 101041172)
    is a type of: sacrament - 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
    subtypes: confession - (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
    has: absolution, remission, remission of sin, remittal - the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
  3. Voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing (synset 101168027)
    is a type of: penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment - the act of punishing
    same as: self-abasement, self-mortification

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