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penance
late 13c., "religious discipline or self-mortification as a token of repentance and as atonement for some sin," from Anglo-Fr.
penaunce
, O.Fr.
penance,
from L.
pænitentia
(see
penitence
). Transf. sense is recorded from c.1300.
