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Things penance often describes ("penance ________")
How penance often is described ("________ penance")
- light
- private
- terrible
- solemn
- corporal
- monastic
- necessary
- vicarious
- adequate
- salutary
- grievous
- hard
- cruel
- spiritual
- highest
- religious
- harsh
- expiatory
- inflicted
- painful
- great
- prescribed
- heavy
- exact
- extraordinary
- interior
- suitable
- lifelong
- open
- year
- appropriate
- enough
- sufficient
- continual
- ascetic
- horrible
- easy
- public
- arduous
- difficult
- usual
- dreadful
- due
- bitter
- daily
- austere
- extreme
- double
- rigid
- ecclesiastical
- christian
- fitting
- eternal
- true
- imposed
- intense
- long
- slight
- sacramental
- holy
- severest
- rigorous
- perpetual
- proper
- humiliating
- secret
- voluntary
- severe
- strict
- canonical
- sincere
