public penance
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- humiliationLoss of dignity
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
- sackclothCoarse fabric for penance
ashes · flagellation · shame · kneeling · pilgrimage · absolution · mortification · contrition · scourging · hairshirt · prostration · stocks · pillory · ritual · expiation · forgiveness · sin · clergy
- Penanceconfession booth, act of contrition, contrition, penitent, shrift
- church penaltiesexcommunication, interdict, suspension, anathema, censure
- confessionconfession, absolution, admission, acknowledgment, declaration
contrition vs. defiance
public penanceself-righteousness
Smug moral superiority
doubling down · standing one's ground · impenitence · obstinacy
self-punishment vs. self-celebration
public penancepublic celebration
Communal festive gathering
victory lap · self-glorification · triumph · coronation · self-aggrandizement