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Penance

Matched in: Term Penance

Penance

Matched in: Term Penance

Penitentiary

Relating to penance or to the rules and measures of penance

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Penanceless

Free from penance

Penitential

Of or pertaining to penitence or to penance expressing penitence of the nature of penance as the penitential book penitential tears

Qu'sta

Qu'sta, an indulgence or remission of penance, sold by the pope. Means remissions of penance, authorized by the Pope to those who contributed a certain

Penitencer

A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases

Quadragene

An indulgence of forty days corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance

Excommunication

of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion as to avoiding an excommunicated person 'until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the church by a judge that hath authority thereto'; Canon 112, to the effect that

Fast-day

in the premises, and to punish offenders by the censures of the Church, and to enjoin them such penance as shall be to the spiritual judge by his discretion thought meet and convenient. 2 & 3 Edw.

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