offensive to pious ears

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Describing a doctrine or proposition that is not heretical, but formulated improperly or ambiguously and hence liable to cause scandal. A formal censure.
    — And Bishop Ullathorne concluded by condemning the journal as “containing propositions which are respectively subversive of the faith, heretical, approaching to heresy, erroneous, derogatory to the teaching of the Church, and offensive to pious ears.”

词源

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin piārum aurium offēnsīvus.
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