PENANCE

n. 1 punishment, penalty, reparation, amends, atonement, self-punishment, self-mortification, regret, repentance, contrition, suffering, penitence A year of public service was fair penance for the offence 2 do penance. pay, suffer, make amends or reparation(s), atone, wear sackcloth and ashes or a hair-shirt She has done penance enough for her crime