late 13c., "religious discipline or self-mortification as a token of repentance and as atonement for some sin," from Anglo-French penaunce, Old French peneance (12c.), from Latin p?nitentia (see penitence). Transferred sense is recorded from c. 1300.
例文
1. The Koran recomends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages.
コーランは、償いとして巡礼前に斎戒することを勧告した。dd>
2.an act of penance
贖罪善功
3.They had confessed their sins and done their penance .
彼らはすでに罪を犯して償いをした。
4.Are you willing to do penance for your sins,my son?