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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_154886" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_154886" /> == | ||
<p> (1): | <p> (1): (n.) Repentance. </p> <p> (2): (n.) 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. [[Penance]] is the fourth of seven sacraments in the [[Roman]] [[Catholic]] Church. </p> <p> (3): (n.) Pain; sorrow; suffering. </p> <p> (4): (v. t.) To impose penance; to punish. </p> | ||
== Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_20319" /> == | == Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_20319" /> == | ||
<p> A punishment either voluntary, or imposed by authority, for the faults a person has committed. | <p> A punishment either voluntary, or imposed by authority, for the faults a person has committed. Penance is one of the seven sacraments of the Romish Church. Besides fasting, alms, abstinence, and the like, which are the general conditions of penance, there are others of a more particular kind; as the repeating a certain number of avemary's paternosters, and credos; wearing a hair shift, and giving oneself a certain number of stripes. In Italy and [[Spain]] it is usual to see Christians, almost naked, loaded with chains, and lashing themselves at every step. </p> <p> See POPERY. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_55220" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_55220" /> == | ||
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== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_77860" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_77860" /> == | ||
<p> In the | <p> In the Roman Catholic Church an expression of penitence as well as the sacrament of absolution; also the suffering to which a penitent voluntarily subjects himself, according to the schoolmen, as an expression of his penitence, and in punishment of his sin; the three steps of penitence were contrition, confession, and satisfaction. </p> | ||
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