Lexicographical Neighbors of Penitences
Literary usage of Penitences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, Thomas Taylor Allen (1897)
"... I cannot mention the passages which justify and explain the propositions that
might seem hard—as, for example, on the subject of penitences, I remember ..."
2. Remarks on Ecclesiastical History by John Jortin (1805)
"For these penitences were more specious than serious ; they were not proofs ...
These forced penitences were not durable, and the shame and infamy annexed ..."
3. An Eirenicon: In a Letter to the Author of "The Christian Year" by Edward Bouverie Pusey (1865)
"His last head is, " The Changes in penitences:"— " I finish these sad reflections by
... Public penitences were turned into torments and temporal penalties. ..."
4. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1898)
"... des penitences & macerations du corps, dirent qu'il falloit auffi qu'ils ...
Ces penitences furent particulieres, mais en voicy vne publique. ..."
5. Discourses Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion and Remarks on by John Jortin (1805)
"These forced penitences were not durable; and the shame and infamy annexed to
them, far from producing a salutary confusion, only irritated the offender, ..."
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