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Finally I asked her what was meant by the seven years' penance.
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In penance for a great crime, he was ordered to do labors.
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The idea of a lifelong penance has taken strong possession of Donatello.
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I would rather do my penance all at once; let me die.
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You will have a heavy penance imposed upon you in the confessional.
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In its ecclesiastical sense, it denotes those who seek holiness through self-mortification.
2
I wished also to avoid the self-mortification which must ensue from altercation.
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The release of the tapes was a wholly unnecessary act of self-mortification.
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If that were true, Celia, my giving-up would be self-indulgence, not self-mortification.
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In company with other monks, Siddhattha sought for a while enlightenment by self-mortification.
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She leaned her white cheek a moment against his in speechless self-abasement.
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In the midst of the deepest self-abasement his heart was overflowing with joy.
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This is not self-abasement; it is not the parading of misfortune.
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The state of the flour-barrel would also produce a like self-abasement.
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I do not say this in the ridiculous affectation of self-abasement and modesty.
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Indeed, his liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation.
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She was sick at heart; she hated herself for her self-abasement.
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Tears flowed unrestrainedly over my face as I howled in self-abasement-
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In those latter times he loved her humbly, with wonder and passionate self-abasement.
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The cry struck him down to a lower depth of self-abasement.
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Moreover, it suggests a passion for self-abasement-andthat cannot be admired.
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His self-abasement was neither tinctured with affectation, nor with the pride of humility.
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Her enemy, a consummate hypocrite herself, sees in her self-abasement nothing but hypocrisy.
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And in his self-abasement, he was heroic, unconsciously, as heroes are.
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One night he prayed with peculiar earnestness and self-abasement till morning.
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All is over for me, she replied with shame and self-abasement.