What is another word for "penance"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "penance": absolve, abstinence, acerbic, amende, amends, anchoret, anchorite, and, apologize, apology, ascetic, asceticism, ashes, atone, atonement, austere, austerity, beg, burnt, come, compensation, composition, compromise, conciliation, cynic, cynical, cynicism, down, expiate, expiation, fair, fall, flagellation, for, forfeit, give, good, hermit, honorable, house.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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