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A threat or threatening a denunciation of punishment or vengeance...
Penance
Penance [fr. p'nitentia, Lat.], an ecclesiastical punishment used in the discipline of the primitive church, which affected the body of the penitent, by which he was obliged to give a public satisfaction to the church for the scandal he had given by his evil example. See the still unrepealed Articuli Cleri, 9 Edw. 2, st. 1, c. 2; Statutes Revised vol. i, at p. 66; also the Introduction to the Commination Service in the Prayer Book....
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