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has gloss | eng: 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. |
lexicalization | eng: Amende Honorable |
lexicalization | eng: Amende-honorable |
instance of | (noun) the act of punishing punishment, penalization, penalisation, penalty |
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has gloss | fra: 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). |
lexicalization | fra: Amende Honorable |
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