Penance vs False - What's the difference?
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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
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
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.As a verb penance
is to impose penance; to punish.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.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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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.
Verb
(penanc)- Some penanced lady elf.
false
English
Adjective
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