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单词 to purge one's contempt
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to purge one's contempt
6. transitive. Law (originally Scots Law). Originally: †to cancel or annul (an offence) (obsolete). Later: to cancel the consequences of (an offence or conviction) by subsequent compliance or compensation; to atone for (an offence) by expiation and submission, so as to gain relief from penalties. Now esp. in to purge one's contempt (contempt n. 2).
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > clearing oneself > clear oneself [verb (transitive)] > wipe out offence
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c1500 Makculloch MS in G. S. Stevenson Pieces from Makculloch & Gray MSS (1918) iv. 64 My saul with sanctis, suet saluatour, rasaif, Sene that thi passione purgit my traspas.
1564 in J. Riddell Tracts (1835) 164 Be ressone of the marriage forsaid subsequent, the first offence thairby being purgit, wes maid lauchfull.
1604 in W. Fraser Douglas Bk. (1885) IV. 190 I most humblie crawe your maiestie pardoun to purge my pairt of any misbehaviour vsit att that tyme.
1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. x. 149 By payment at the Barr, it will be purged.
1687 N. Johnston Assurance Abby & Church-lands 196 That is only true where the Violence is not purged, but here the violence is purged by obtaining the Pope's Grant.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxxi. 486 A plain direct act of bankruptcy once committed cannot be purged, or explained away by any subsequent conduct.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 373 The Court said, that justification for heriot service on seisin of the ancestor, was an acceptance of the heir as tenant, and purged the forfeiture.
1894 Daily News 10 May 2/3 [The accused has] taken steps to purge the sentence of outlawry passed upon him in consequence of his non-appearance at the Justiciary Court, Edinburgh, for trial.
1897 Encycl. Law at Contempt of Court It is necessary for a person judged to be in contempt to clear or purge his contempt.
2004 D. Peace GB 84 203 The sequestrators had seized seven hundred thousand pounds from South Wales. It would be held until the NUM leaders purged their contempt.
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