What's the difference between penance and scarification?
Penance
Definition:
(n.) Repentance.
(n.) Pain; sorrow; suffering.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To impose penance; to punish.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(2) The Vatican ordered O'Brien to undertake an unspecified period of "prayer and penance".
(3) The girls know they are expected to show a certain degree of penance.
(4) So next Sunday, he's going to murder blameless Father James as an enforced act of penance.
(5) On the contrary, I could name many ( many ) celebrities who I'd love to see forced into doing charity work and "giving back", as a penance for being smug, over-rewarded, self-obsessed wastes of space.
(6) In 2010, Admiral William McRaven, then the head of the Joint Special Operations Command, slaughtered a sheep in penance to a family that saw its members mistakenly killed by McRaven’s forces.
(7) The cardinal's resignation and removal from Scotland for six months of prayer and penance had cast doubt over an inquiry.
(8) But Harold Wilson, offended by a speech in which I had attacked the public schools, exiled me to the Foreign Office to do penance as minister of state.
(9) No longer obliged to play nice – as they did in the early hours of Wednesday morning, when they agreed to release €10.3bn in bailout money for Athens – they’d now be able to revive their demand that Greece live on ever more meagre rations in penance for its huge debts.
(10) The proposition also galvanized a generation of Latino politicians with long memories, who have effectively created a sanctuary state in California in subsequent years – offering driver’s licenses to folks without papers, providing in-state tuition for undocumented college students, officially telling la migra to butt out of state affairs – as penance for the sins of their predecessors.
(11) Though John’s midweek surgery leaves him sidelined for the season, Díaz has been working towards full fitness while Castillo has paid penance and was back in Pareja’s team for Sunday’s kickoff.
(12) The common understanding of prison is that it is a place of deprivation and penance rather than domestic comfort.
(13) Manchester United have got into the habit of treating their lopsided Premier League programme as a penance.
(14) But that old model is irreparably broken: the supermarket giant revealed last week that group pre-tax profits for the first six months of this year were almost completely wiped out by penance for past accounting sins and the collapsing profitability of the ailing UK chain.
(15) He paid the fines and, as a self-imposed additional penance, painted religious murals for various Baptist chapels around the city.
(16) Perhaps it was as a kind of penance that, under the Tories’ free schools programme, Hyman, now a qualified teacher, set up School 21 (a school for the 21st century, geddit?).
(17) O’Brien was Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric at the time, and he was ordered by the Vatican to spend a period of time in “prayer and penance”.
(18) Given all this, it's not surprising that ICT came to be regarded by schools as an onerous obligation and by children as a tiresome penance inflicted on them by adults who seemed to have no idea about the online world.
(19) Now perhaps these same people have accepted the austerity measures largely because they see them as a form of penance; this is even the language that their politicians have couched their policies in to sell them.
(20) Having already ticked off the home secretary and the education secretary for conducting their private feud in public, he sent the bulk of Eric Pickles to separate them on the front bench as they did their two-hour penance on the naughty step answering urgent questions in the Commons on extremism in schools.
Scarification
Definition:
(n.) The act of scarifying.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, in all wounds, it offers the best conditions for cutting, scarification of the wound and perifocal infiltrative treatment with anti-ophidic serum.
(2) An additional 117 patients with similar characteristics were treated with the same program with the addition of bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) by scarification (FAC-BCG-LMS).
(3) These results support the view that splenosubcutaneous collaterals, stimulated by scarification, are essential for successful portal diversion.
(4) One mutant had a decreased transmission from mice infected by tail scarification to naive cage mates.
(5) Eighty mice were subjected to repeated inoculation of HSV-1 on their upper lips after scarification, and systemic administration of acyclovir (ACV).
(6) Vaccinia virus infection was performed by scarification of the shaved skin (5 times 5 cm2) on the back of Pirbright guinea pigs.
(7) Microsurgical interventions, such as scarification of epithelium, dosed local keratectomy of superficial pathologically changed portions of the cornea with subsequent epicorneal covering by keracol, allowed to arrest the pathologic process within 3-10 days in 85% of patients; in the control group--the same results were achieved in 68.4% of cases.
(8) As a result, many physicians feel pressured by their patients to replace the intradermal route of administration with scarification and to replace strong strains with weaker strains of vaccine.
(9) In all subjects scarification of forearm skin was carried out three times at intervals of 3 days.
(10) The chemoimmunotherapy consisted of a three-drug combination of Adriamycin, cyclophosphamide, and 5-fluorouracil or Ftorafur; immunotherapy consisted of either oral levamisole, BCG by scarification, or a combination of both.
(11) Scarification vaccination induced humoral and cell-mediated immune responses.
(12) The immunological status of seven patients with disseminated melanoma during BCG scarification was followed.
(13) We used the Collings knife electrode for the creation of a nephrostomy tract in 17 patients (19 renal units) with difficult percutaneous access due to scarification, or the inability to advance a guide wire sufficiently for stabilization and dilation by conventional means.
(14) This is an unusual complication of the scarification technique.
(15) Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV) infection of trigeminal and dorsal root ganglia was established in mice via corneal scarification and footpad injection, respectively.
(16) The morphological and ultrastructural findings indicated that the presence of air induced a reactive process at the visceral pleura which led to degeneration and scarification.
(17) Serological efficacy of oral smallpox vaccination was studied in comparison with the scarification and jet methods (1677 persons were vaccinated orally, 148 by scarification, and 1864 by the jet method).
(18) Scarification commenced 3 days after surgical removal of the tumor and continued once a week for 5 weeks.
(19) Six patients with recurrent bladder papillomata were treated both by abdominal scarification with bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and by intravesical BCG, without resection.
(20) 4 different protocols were used: the slow drip intravenous infusion with paraformaldehyde-fixed autologous cells infected with V25; repeated scarification with V25 for the 2nd protocol; scarifications with fragments of Gp 120 env protein; and intramuscular injections of purified autologous cell membrane infected with V25.