penanceless

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• Penanceless — Pen ance*less, a. Free from penance. [R.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• penance — penanceless, adj. /pen euhns/, n. 1. a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin. 2. a penitential discipline imposed by church authority. 3. a sacrament, as in the Roman Catholic Church, consisting in a confession of sin, made with… …   Universalium