Clues for the word "PENANCE"
We've had 53 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 80 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on October 14, 2025.
Definition of penance
- n. - Repentance.
- n. - Pain; sorrow; suffering.
- n. - A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.
- v. t. - To impose penance; to punish.
Referring Clues
- Sinners do it
- One of the sacraments
- What some sinners do
- Hair shirt occasion
- Amends
- Hair shirt wearer's activity
- Act of contrition
- Sinner's punishment
- A Catholic sacrament
- What a sinner may do
- Remorseful act
- Sinners may do it
- Four-step catholic sacrament
- Act of remorse
- Sinner's self-abasement
- Sackcloth and ashes
- Atoning punishment
- Hail Marys, often
- Expiation
- Atonement for sins
- Price for forgiveness, perhaps
- Act of reparation
- Self mortification
- Catholic sacrament of confession and forgiveness
- It's done to atone for sin
- Punishment
- Church discipline
- Coppers brought about an act of self-punishment
- Last character leaves Cornish town in humiliation
- Possibly tedious letter from Penzance
- Voluntary punishment to atone for sin
- Coppers must accept an imposed punishment
- Zionist leader leaves Cornish town as act of atonement
- Act imposed for sin
- Act of atonement
- Writer, number one, describing punishment
- Expression of sorrow for sin
- For punishment, keep in and cane, perhaps
- Penalty for coins being found outside North America
- Voluntary punishment an essential to change
- Change brought about an act of punishment
- What a person in a hair shirt is probably doing
- Act of repentance
- Little money for investment, an atonement?
- Write article on church as act of contrition
- Act of penitence
- Last character to leave town in Cornwall in sackcloth and ashes?
- Punitive letter from Penzance
- Atonement
- When in the money, an atonement
- A kind of self-punishment
- Self-punishment
- Money covering article as atonement
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - October 14, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 27, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 24, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 29, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 11, 2024
- USA Today - April 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 25, 2024
- Your Life Choices - March 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 27, 2023
- LA Times - May 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 22, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 01, 2022
- Your Life Choices - January 25, 2018
- Guardian Cryptic - September 06, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - September 05, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - July 07, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 23, 2017
- Family Time - January 23, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - December 12, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 24, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 29, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 18, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - April 01, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - March 18, 2016
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - December 27, 2015
- USA Today - October 13, 2015
- LA Times - September 08, 2015
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