Definition of Mea culpa

1. Noun. An acknowledgment of your error or guilt.

Generic synonyms: Acknowledgement, Acknowledgment

Definition of Mea culpa

1. Phrase. My fault, due to my error; my bad. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mea Culpa

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Literary usage of Mea culpa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tracts on the Mass by John Wickham Legg (1904)
"Manu dextera percutit pectus suum interim dicens. mea culpa : mea culpa : mea maxima culpa. Ideo precor beatam Mariam semper virginem : beatum Michaelem ..."

2. Songs, Ballads and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest by William Allingham (1877)
"mea culpa. AT me one night the angry moon, •**' Suspended to a rim of cloud, Glared through the courses of the wind. Suddenly then my spirit bow'd And ..."

3. Courtly Love in Chaucer and Gower by William George Dodd (1913)
"(Lay falts' Mass Booh, p.90); also: " Confiteor Deo omnipotent! . . . quia peccavi nimis cogitatione, verbo et opere, mea culpa, mea culpa, ..."

4. Society Verse by American Writers edited by Ernest De Lancey Pierson (1887)
"mea culpa. EDWARD S. MARTIN. '"INHERE is a thing which in my brain, * Though nightly I revolve it, I cannot in the least explain, ..."

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