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Dissipate vs Penance - What's the difference?

dissipate | penance |

As verbs the difference between dissipate and penance

is that dissipate is to drive away, disperse 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.

dissipate

English

Verb

(dissipat)
  • To drive away, disperse.
  • * Cook
    • I soon dissipated his fears.
  • * Hazlitt
    • The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.
  • To use up or waste.
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • The vast wealth was in three years dissipated .
  • * 1931 :
    • So much for the effort and ingenuity of Montmartre. All the catering to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale, and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word "dissipate'"—to ' dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something.
  • To vanish by dispersion.

    • Related terms

    * dissipation

    External links

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    penance

    English

    (wikipedia penance)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
  • * Coleridge
    • Quoth he, "The man hath penance done, / And penance more will do."
  • A sacrament in some Christian churches.
  • (obsolete) repentance
  • (obsolete) pain; sorrow; suffering
  • * Chaucer
    • Joy or penance he feeleth none.

    Quotations

    * 2009 : Stuart Heritage], [http://www.hecklerspray.com/ Hecklerspray] , Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “[http://www.hecklerspray.com/jon-kate-latest-people-you-dont-know-do-crap-you-dont-care-about/200934378.php Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About” *: You know all this kerfuffle about Jordan and Peter Andre, and how you don’t know if they’re really splitting up or it’s just an act, and how you can’t be bothered to find out because wasting even a fraction of your brainpower on those bright orange clueless dicksplats would make you just as bad as them and you’d feel duty-bound to fling yourself under an industrial threshing machine as penance ? You do? Good.

    Related terms

    * penitent

    Verb

    (penanc)
  • To impose penance; to punish.
  • * Keats
    • Some penanced lady elf.