Amende honorable
Amende honorable was originally a mode of punishment in France which required the offender, barefoot and stripped to his shirt, and led into a church or auditory with a torch in his hand and a rope round his neck held by the public executioner, to beg pardon on his knees of his God, his king, and his country; now used to denote a satisfactory apology or reparation.
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Amende honorable
Amende honorable was originally a mode of punishment in France which required the offender, barefoot and stripped to his shirt, and led into a church or auditory with a torch in his hand and a rope round his neck held by the public executioner, to beg pardon on his knees of his God, his king, and his country; now used to denote a satisfactory apology or reparation.
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Amende honorable was originall ...... f the Church of Paris in 1757.
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L'amende honorable est, en Fra ...... on « faire amende honorable ».
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Amende honorable was originall ...... factory apology or reparation.
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L'amende honorable est, en Fra ...... on « faire amende honorable ».
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Amende honorable
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