PENANCE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a Catholic sacrament
   • repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
   
   Hypernyms(s) penance is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • sacrament (what does sacrament mean?)
   
   Hyponym(s)
   • confession (what does confession mean?)
2. Meaning
   • voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
   
   Synonym(s)
   • self-abasement (what does self-abasement mean?)
   • self-mortification (what does self-mortification mean?)
   
   Hypernyms(s) penance is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • punishment (what does punishment mean?)
   • penalty (what does penalty mean?)
   • penalization (what does penalization mean?)
   • penalisation (what does penalisation mean?)
3. Meaning
   • remorse for your past conduct
   
   Synonym(s)
   • penitence (what does penitence mean?)
   • repentance (what does repentance mean?)
   
   Hypernyms(s) penance is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • compunction (what does compunction mean?)
   • remorse (what does remorse mean?)
   • self-reproach (what does self-reproach mean?)
   
   Derived(s)
   • repent (what does repent mean?)
   • regret (what does regret mean?)
   • rue (what does rue mean?)