1. The suffering to which a person voluntarily subjects himself as an expression of penitence. See Penitent.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• penetance,
• lenancy,
• tenance,
• denunce,
• meanance,
• funance,
• palance,
• pesence,
• menance,
• patance,
• pearance,
• peince,
• depenance,
• fnance,
• ehnance,
• nunance,
• pentence,
• pennance,
• fanance,
• repenance

• pennoncel,
• Pennines,
• penoncel,
• penning.

The adjective form of the word "penance" is "penitential".

The plural of the "penance" can be the "penances".

The singular of the "penance" can be the "penance".