Meanings
adjectivepenanceless (not comparable)
- not comparablerareFree from penance.
I am now redeemed; you too shall soon be released from your earthly bondage, and will return to God penanceless.
1874, Edmund Martin Geldart, comtesse Marie Alker Günther, Folk-lore of Modern Greece: The Tales of the People, page 30
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