piaculative

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adjective

Piacular; atoning for sin or crime.

OriginLatin piaculum →
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Meanings

adjectivepiaculative (comparative more piaculative, superlative most piaculative)

comparative more piaculative · superlative most piaculative

  1. rarePiacular; atoning for sin or crime.

    The sable presbyters approach / The avenue of penitence; / The young are red and pustular / Clutching piaculative pence.

    1920, T. S. Eliot, “Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service”, in Poems

Origin

  1. Latinpiaculum“propitiatory sacrifice”
  2. Englishpiaculative

Coined a. 1920 by T.S. Eliot, from Latin piaculum (“propitiatory sacrifice”) + -ative.

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