Piacular

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Making expiation or atonement for a sacrilege: piacular sacrifice.
  • adj. Requiring expiation; wicked or blameworthy.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Requiring atonement or reparation; wicked or sinful.
  • adj. Expiatory.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Expiatory; atoning.
  • adj. Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Expiatory; having power to atone: as, piacular rites.
  • Requiring expiation; blameworthy; criminal; sinful; wicked.
    • Word Usage
    "I felt the glow of success, raising an academic paper from a piacular rite to -- dare I say it -- art."
    Form
    piacularness    piacularly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    expiatory    atoning    criminal   
     
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