Penance vs Quadragene - What's the difference?
penance | quadragene |
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
An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.
As nouns the difference between penance and quadragene
is that penance is a voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing it may be intended to serve as reparation for the act while quadragene is an indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.As a verb penance
is to impose penance; to punish.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
* 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.
Verb
(penanc)- Some penanced lady elf.