Penance is valid Scrabble Word

Is penance a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is penance valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for PENANCE in dictionary:

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NOUN:

punishment inflicted on oneself as an outward expression of repentance for wrongdoing
a sacrament in which a member of the Church confesses sins to a priest and is given absolution.
a religious observance or other duty required of a person by a priest as part of this sacrament to indicate repentance.
voluntary self-punishment
Pain; sorrow; suffering.
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.

remorse for your past conduct
a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing

Words related to PENANCE

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Words that contain PENANCE

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How to use PENANCE in a sentence

So long as there is Sin in the world, so long must there be Penance.
I fasted as penance for my involuntary sin of unbelief.
To have him branded as a thief must needs be worse suffering than any life-long penance she might endure in matrimony.
Olave, he was commanded by the spirit of the offended saint to perform the voluntary penance of quitting the kingdom in thirty days.
But you must not escape your penance for turning back Masters.
They would have regarded it as a pretty severe penance.
Something big and abiding had sprung up out of the ashes of his penance.
Here for six years he gave himself up to the severest penance until he was wasted away to a shadow by fasting and self-mortification.
To me this was great penance, but at last the voices ceased, and, looking secretly from the window, I saw the Maiden depart, her archer following her.
Penance was prescribed only to those who had been guilty of mortal sins.

This wicked woman, touched by grace, followed the Saint into the desert, there to perform rigorous penance.
As the result, the Archbishop of Canterbury instituted proceedings against her, and she was condemned to severe penance for the remainder of her life.
This was often done by pilgrims and others who wished to do penance for their sins.
Therefore sins are not the proper matter of Penance.
Therefore a penitent cannot grieve continually for his past sins, which is essential to penance.
Therefore whosoever sin after doing penance, cannot do penance again.
Wherefore, since virtue is a principle of an act, penance is either a virtue or accompanies a virtue, rather than Baptism or Confirmation.
Wherefore it is evident that penance, as a virtue, is a part of justice.
Wherefore it is evident that penance is not a theological virtue, because God is not its matter or object.
Now grace is infused, in Penance as in the other sacraments of the New Law.
Therefore no parts at all should be assigned to Penance.
In this spot the highest forms of penance are wrought out.
How Sir Bors met with an hermit, and how he was confessed to him, and of his penance enjoined to him.
To believe that he was in daily communication with Esther, and that she must ache to know him, has sustained David Lockwin in his penance.
It was then becoming that christians should consecrate these days of mercy, of grace and salvation to exercises of penance, devotion, and thanksgiving.
He was still much worried and talked of doing penance.
For Erasmus to sit in Paris for two or three years while his books were being printed, would have been at least a penance.

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