nostra culpa

名词 n. 感叹词 intj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An instance of nostra culpa; an apology on behalf of a group. uncommon
    — Ours is one of the “leftist and liberal Catholic publications (who) beat their breasts with an editorial nostra culpa whenever Red gains ate chalked up anywhere in the world.” She [Gretta Palmer] inserted a parenthetical remark in the above sentence: “(or, staring fiercely at the Hierarchy, an even more vigorous vestra culpa)”—sentiments which I decline to accept as mine.
感叹词 intj.
  1. Our fault, due to our error; we are to blame. uncommon
    — The exponents of guilt routinely exempt themselves from their accusations; they do not speak of mea culpa but of nostra culpa, or rather vestra culpa.

词形变化

nostra culpas plural

词源

词源 1
Learned borrowing from the Latin phrase nostrā culpā (“through our fault”), ablative case of nostra culpa (“our fault, guilt”), used in English by analogy with mea culpa.
词源 2
Learned borrowing from the Latin phrase nostrā culpā (“through our fault”), ablative case of nostra culpa (“our fault, guilt”), used in English by analogy with mea culpa.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary