Piacular
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adjective.
Making expiation or atonement for a sacrilege.
adjective.
Requiring expiation; wicked or blameworthy.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Expiatory; having power to atone: as,
piacular
rites.
Requiring expiation; blameworthy; criminal; sinful; wicked.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adjective.
Expiatory; atoning.
adjective.
Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
adjective.
Requiring
atonement
or
reparation
;
wicked
or
sinful
.
adjective.
Expiatory
.
Word Usage
"Exactly right, Arnold, on the piacular health care proposals."
Form
piacularly
piacularness
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
atoning
criminal
expiatory