🔤 Penance ✨
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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
kaffara, tauba, prayashchit, zabt, riyazat
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ENGLISH
📚noun
penance
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: /ˈpen.əns/
Phonetic: /pen-uhns/
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DEFINITION
voluntary self-punishment inflicted as an outward expression of repentance for wrongdoing
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
He performed acts of charitable penance to make amends for his past moral mistakes.
The priest advised the young man to say ten prayers as a religious penance.
She spent hours doing grueling community service as a self-imposed penance for her anger.
Fast and quiet prayer were seen as forms of penance during the holy month.
He felt that working long extra hours was his personal penance for failing the project.
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