PENANCES Synonyms

• something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors

• the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

• compensation for a wrong

• the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)

• a justly deserved penalty

• the act of correcting for your wrongdoing

• the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

• the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.

• personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)

• a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value

• the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity

• (baseball) an out that advances the base runners

• endure the loss of

• kill or destroy

• sell at a loss

• make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals

• remorse for your past conduct

• compensation for a wrong

• the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)

• remorse for your past conduct

• voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing

• voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing