·noun Pain; sorrow; suffering.
II. Penance ·noun Repentance.
III. Penance ·vt To impose penance; to Punish.
IV. Penance ·noun 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.