e/Amende honorable

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has glosseng: Amende honorable was originally a mode of punishment in France which required the offender, stripped to his shirt (with his genitals hanging out in the wind), 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.
lexicalizationeng: Amende Honorable
lexicalizationeng: Amende-honorable
instance of(noun) the act of punishing
punishment, penalization, penalisation, penalty
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has glossfra: L’amende honorable était une peine infamante de lancien droit pénal français, consistant pour le condamné à reconnaître publiquement sa faute et à en demander pardon à Dieu, à la société et aux hommes. Elle pouvait être simple, et dans ce cas le condamné nétait pas revêtu des incapacités juridiques liées à linfamie (déchéance du droit dexercer certaines professions, y compris de la Noblesse et des Ordres sacrés).
lexicalizationfra: Amende Honorable

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