English-Spanish translations for penance

• penitencia
  El Camino de Santiago es la ruta que los peregrinos y los pecadores seguían para hacer penitencia por sus pecados. The Way of St James is the route taken by pilgrims and sinners in order to do penance for their sins.
  Un régimen que no permite a sus jóvenes hacer penitencia y enmendarse no tiene futuro; caerá. A regime that does not allow young people to do their penance and mend their ways has no future; it will fall.
  Sabemos que muchos Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno deberían recorrer este camino, junto con sus Ministros de transporte, para hacer penitencia por sus pecados de omisión. We know that this path ought to be trudged by a whole host of Heads of State and Government, along with their Transport Ministers, in order to do penance for their sins of omission.

Definition of penance

• A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act
• A sacrament in some Christian churches
• repentance
• To impose #Noun|penance; to punish

Related words

• Penan Benalui
• do penance
• act of penance