What is the meaning of penance?

Remorse for your past conduct.
- synonyms: repentance, penitence
A Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution.
Voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing.
- synonyms: self-mortification, self-abasement

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