Meaning of தவம் in English
- The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment.
- Repentance.
- Pain; sorrow; suffering.
- A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.
- To impose penance; to punish.
- of Penance
- Penitence.
- The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition.
- Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.
- Doing penance.
- One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.
- One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
- One under the direction of a confessor.
- Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears.
- A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book.
- In a penitential manner.
- The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court.
- In a penitent manner.
- A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, / long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel.
- A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.
- Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
- Penuriousness; miserliness.
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