Punishment
Punishment noun - Suffering, loss, or hardship imposed in response to a crime or offense.
Repentance and punishment are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Repentance" instead a noun "Punishment".
Repentance
Repentance noun - A feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing.
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Punishment and repentance are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Punishment" instead a noun "Repentance".
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It especially focuses on the concepts of compassion, as well as crime, punishment, and repentance.
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Jack has a few overarching themes in its stories, mostly centering on the nature of sin, punishment, repentance and redemption, understandable for a comic about Heaven and Hell.
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At the end of the First Age, he considered supplicating himself in repentance to the Valar, but out of fear for the punishment he rightly deserved, he ultimately turned away from the light for good.
Source: Literature / The Silmarillion
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