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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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PEN'ANCE, n.
Repentance.
[Obs.]
Wyclif (Luke xv. 7). Pain; sorrow; suffering.
[Obs.] "Joy
or penance he feeleth none." Chaucer. A means of repairing a sin
committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the
performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a
punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth
of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.
Schaff-
Herzog Encyc.
And bitter penance, with an iron whip. Spenser. Quoth he, "The man hath penance done, To impose penance] to
punish.
"Some penanced lady elf." Keats. | ||||||||