Meanings of public penance in English

This public penance was a very little thing, like the dipping in Jordan.

One was condemned to do public penance if he omitted a Sunday service.

And the proud duchess is forced to do public penance.

There they remain until they recant and do public penance.

Did she wish to do public penance for a fault of which she had not been convicted?

Thus the corporation did public penance.

He should first of all have a taste of public penance and public opinion from parish to parish.

The next day there was a whisper through the school that Kitty Malone was about to do public penance.

Illegitimacy was infrequent, and punished by church-mandated public penance by the mother and lesser penance and maintenance by the father.

But that a public penance is imposed upon public sinners, is to be understood of the punishment of this present life.

Later penance became a private matter ( public penance was suppressed by an ordinance of Pope Leo I in 461 A.D.).

The chance was indeed once offered, but under the impossible condition that he should do public penance in the Baptistery for his offence.

A system grew up under which the need was met by the substitution, in the majority of cases, of private for public penance.

This was the first time he had been up before the magistrate, and by law that was punishable only by imprisonment and public penance.

The Christians in the first ages of the Church did public penance, especially for the sins of which they were publicly known to be guilty.

The emperor quickly felt remorse for the atrocity of which he had been guilty, and submitted to do public penance under the direction of Ambrose.