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  • verb Present participle of penance.

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Examples

  • Hollywood writers and actors and hangers-on spouting cheap trauma, Pinko platitudes and guilt over raking in big money during the Depression, then penancing the bucks out to spurious leftist causes.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

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