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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Pennancenoun
Infliction either publick or private, suffered as an expression of repentance for sin.
Etymology: penence, old French; for penitence.
And bitter pennance, with an iron whip,
Was wont him once to disciple every day. Fairy Queen.Mew her up,
And make her bear the pennance of her tongue. William Shakespeare.No penitentiary, though he had enjoined him never so straight pennance to expiate his first offence, would have counselled him to have given over the pursuit of his right. Francis Bacon.
The scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to pennance. John Milton, Paradise Lost.A Lorain surgeon, who whipped the naked part with a great rod of nettles till all over blistered, persuaded him to perform this pennance in a sharp fit he had. William Temple.
Wikipedia
Pennance
Pennance is a hamlet near Lanner in west Cornwall, England.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of pennance in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of pennance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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