English Explanatory Dictionary

piaculative

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Piacular; atoning for sin or crime.

Word forms

piaculative more piaculative most piaculative

Etymology

Coined a. 1920 by T.S. Eliot, from Latin piaculum (“propitiatory sacrifice”) + -ative.

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