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Mortifying :: Mortifying (a.) Subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as, mortifying penances..

Penitent :: Penitent (n.) One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance..

Woolward-going :: Woolward-going (n.) A wearing of woolen clothes next the skin as a matter of penance.

Penitent :: Penitent (a.) Doing penance.

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (a.) Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance..

Mortification :: Mortification (n.) Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body..

Peri :: Peri (n.) An imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise till penance is accomplished..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.

Penanceless :: Penanceless (a.) Free from penance.

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) One who does penance.

Trisacramentarian :: Trisacramentarian (n.) One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament..

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge..

Penanced :: Penanced (imp. & p. p.) of Penanc.

Penitencer :: Penitencer (n.) A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases.

Mortify :: Mortify (v. i.) To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.

Penance :: Penance (n.) Repentance.

Absolution :: Absolution (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven..

Penitential :: Penitential (n.) A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book..

Indulgence :: Indulgence (n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory..

Penance :: Penance (n.) Pain; sorrow; suffering.

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