Pardon or forgiveness; a request for this; the gesture of kneeling or prostrating oneself as an indication of penitence and desire for pardon.
| 单词 | θ178893 |
| 释义 | society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > gesture of repentance (3) veny?c1225 Pardon or forgiveness; a request for this; the gesture of kneeling or prostrating oneself as an indication of penitence and desire for pardon. substration1646 Church History. The action of kneeling or prostrating oneself in attending a service characteristic of the order of penitents in the early church… humicubation1656 Lying down on the ground, esp. as a sign of penitence or humiliation. |
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