Atone vs Penance - What's the difference?
atone | penance |
To make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime or a sin one has committed.
(proscribed) To clear (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.
A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
* Coleridge
A sacrament in some Christian churches.
(obsolete) repentance
(obsolete) pain; sorrow; suffering
* Chaucer
To impose penance; to punish.
* Keats
As verbs the difference between atone and penance
is that atone is to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime or a sin one has committed while penance is to impose penance; to punish.As a noun penance is
a voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing it may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.atone
English
Verb
(aton)Synonyms
* (to make reparation) expiate, propitiateDerived terms
() * atonable * atoneable * atonement * atonerAnagrams
* * English words prefixed with at- ----penance
English
(wikipedia penance)Noun
(en noun)- Quoth he, "The man hath penance done, / And penance more will do."
- Joy or penance he feeleth none.
Quotations
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Verb
(penanc)- Some penanced lady elf.