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American Church Dictionary
• Penance
Charles Buck Dictionary
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CARM Theological Dictionary
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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• Step of Pardon, Penance, or Satisfaction
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• The Sacrament of Penance
• The Virtue of Penance

In the Roman Catholic Church an expression of penitence as well as the sacrament of absolution; also the suffering to which a penitent voluntarily subjects himself, according to the schoolmen, as an expression of his penitence, and in punishment of his sin; the three steps of penitence were contrition, confession, and satisfaction.