Converse of object

• impose: If he is convinced of your penitence, he will absolve you and finish by imposing a penance.

• perform: People found guilty of defamation were usually asked to perform a penance.

• do: He won't ask you to do penance to prove yourself worthy of His love.

• pay: Why aren't the viewers expected to want him to pay penance?

• make: His death sparked outrage throughout Europe and culminated in the King making public penance.

• undergo: She underwent harsh penances sometimes to keep herself as pure as purity can be.

Adjective modifier

• public: There seems to have been a strong tradition in the house against lowering the dignity of the regular life by public penances.

• severe: One hour of suffering there will be more bitter than a hundred years of the most severe penance here.

• little: I came here specially to let you off the little penance which would otherwise have followed your little offense.

• similar: Similar penance was imposed, and at Eyke he certified that he had performed penance / p.

• Lenten: They tell us our Lenten penances must be sincere.

• self-imposed: Sometimes, as a self-imposed penance, he would stand up to his neck in a lake of cold water, reciting Scripture.

Modifies a noun

• performed.: Penance performed. / p p William Glover was noted for the same offense.

• service: Monday 18th March at 7.00pm There will be a Penance service in church at which the children will make their first confession.

Possessives

• year: He did seven years ' penance for a sin he had committed.

Preposition: in

• church: M'Leod started the subject of making women do penance in the church for fornication.

Preposition: for

• sin: At last, they found a suitable penance for the ultimate sin.

• murder: She brought Heracles while he was serving as a slave as penance for the murder of Iphitus.

• slaying: The twelve seemingly impossible tasks are imposed upon him as a penance for slaying his wife and children in a fit of madness.

• year: There he did penance for one year, and no one lived with him.