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Definition of Penancing
1. penance [v] - See also: penance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Penancing
Literary usage of Penancing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1888)
"... and for several years persecution continued there, resulting in burning many
obstinate heretics and penancing those who yielded. ..."
2. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1907)
"... slight as the penalties may seem, they were the least part of the punishment,
for penancing by the Inquisition was fatal to limpieza. ..."
3. Remains of the Late Reverend Richard Hurrell Froude by James Bowling Mozley, Richard Hurrell Froude (1839)
"penancing himself for the deeds he did as a courtier ; nor, as I think, does he
make flesh his arm. Yet I suppose that God delays to interfere for him, ..."
4. The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical by Hugh James Rose, Samuel Roffey Maitland (1833)
"... that friend of the church of Canterbury, whose mother still lives among you,
penancing herself with cold and hunger. " We then, humble and poor, ..."
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