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单词 to cry peccavi
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to cry peccavi
Used to acknowledge one's guilt or responsibility for an error. Frequently in to cry peccavi. Cf. mea culpa int. and n.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [phrase]
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1509 J. Fisher Serm. Henry VIJ (de Worde) sig. Aiiij Kynge Dauid that wrote this psalme..with one worde spekynge his herte was chaunged sayenge Peccaui.
1547 A. Kelton Chronycle with Genealogie sig. Eiii So that we cannot, the thyng deny But with the Prophete, to saie peccaui.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 35 Muche sooner shal al other be subiecte vnto hym, and crye Peccaui.
1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. G2v Giue me leaue to incounter this puckfist: and if I doe not make him cry Peccaui, say Dicke Bowyer's a powdred Mackrell.
1712 T. Ellwood Davideis iv. viii. 253 He was the First, I say, that met the King; And on his Knees, did thus Peccavi Sing.
1792 J. Belknap Foresters iv. 49 Frog, who had no mind either to quarrel, or to cry peccavi,..shrugged up his shoulders.
1846 B. R. Hall Something for Every Body lvi. 209 And so you cry peccavi! Very well I will let you off.
1862 W. M. Thackeray Philip I. vi. 111 He roared out peccavi most frankly when charged with his sins.
1912 W. James Ess. Radical Empiricism vi. 164 (note) I ought myself to cry peccavi, having been a voluminous sinner in my own chapter on the will.
1997 N.Y. Times 7 Sept. 24/3 Wouldn't it be ‘loverly’ if Robert McNamara, now crying ‘peccavi’, were to distribute the millions derived from his book to Vietnam veterans?
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