Canossa

名词 n. 专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of humiliating repentance. figuratively
    — No statement was issued on this meeting, but the world deduced that Bethlen had won all along the line, for on the 14th Gömbös read out on the wireless a declaration which was hailed as “a veritable Canossa.”
专有名词
  1. A comune and castle town in the Province of Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, famed as the site where the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV did penance in 1077, standing three days bare-headed in the snow, in order to reverse his excommunication by Pope Gregory VII.
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