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noun • remorse for your past conduct • a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution • voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing | ||||
| 31% | 15 | Desire for a voluntary society based on voluntary cooperation | ||
noun • an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action | ||||
| 25% | 8 | Extreme physical pain inflicted as punishment or punishment | ||
noun • extreme mental distress • unbearable physical pain • intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain • the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean • the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason verb • torment emotionally or mentally • subject to torture | ||||
Voluntary Punishment An Essential To Change
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PENANCE which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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PENANCE
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