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81Adoration — • In the strict sense, an act of religion offered to God in acknowledgment of His supreme perfection and dominion, and of the creature s dependence upon Him Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Adoration Adoration …
82sin — A moral category going beyond that of simple wrongdoing by its implications of evil, disobedience, depravity, stain, and wickedness . Sin therefore requires atonement, penitence, and self abasement. The abjection and lack of self respect implied… …
83submission — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Yielding Nouns 1. submission, submissiveness, obedience, resignation, patience, humility, self abasement, compliance, pliancy, docility, passivity, acquiescence, sufferance, conformity, subjection;… …
84humility — n. Humbleness, meekness, submissiveness, lowliness, self abasement, lowliness of mind, freedom from pride or arrogance, freedom from self righteousness …
85mortification — n. 1. (Med.) Gangrene, sphacelus, necrosis. 2. Discontent, dissatisfaction, displeasure, vexation, chagrin, disappointment, humiliation, trouble, shame. 3. Humiliation, self abasement, self denial …
86condescension — n 1. deigning, stooping, condescending, condescendence; patronage, patronizing, looking down or upon; scorn, disdain, contempt, disrespect, underestimation; disparagement, discredit, slur, detraction; humiliation, dishonor, offense, insult, Sl.… …
87Expiation — Ex pi*a tion, n. [L. expiatio: cf.F. expiation] 1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. [1913 Webster] His liberality seemed to have something in it of self… …
88penance — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Medieval Latin poenitentia penitence Date: 14th century 1. an act of self abasement, mortification, or devotion performed to show sorrow or repentance for sin 2. a sacramental rite that… …
89Whodunit — A whodunit or whodunnit (for Who done it? ) is a complex, plot driven variety of the detective story in which the puzzle is the main feature of interest. The reader is provided with clues from which the identity of the perpetrator of the crime… …
90Foucault's Pendulum — infobox Book | name = Foucault s Pendulum title orig = Il pendolo di Foucault translator = William Weaver image caption = Cover of 1989 Picador edition author = Umberto Eco cover artist = country = Italy language = Italian series = genre =… …
