nostra culpa
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.26 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The exponents of guilt routinely exempt themselves from their accusations; they do not speak of mea culpa but of nostra culpa, or rather vestra culpa."
- "[…] ‘vostra culpa’ – ‘nostra culpa’ – that we did not see what was right in front […]"
- "The process of proliferation of attitudes characterized by “outer directed-ness” has been associated with the parallel process of the wilting of individual guilt—the core of Christianity. […] Mea culpa has been progressively replaced first by vostra culpa that, some time after World War II, gave way to nostra culpa. Mea culpa has been marginalized and has progressively gone out of fashion."
- "Ours is one of the “leftist and liberal Catholic publications (who) beat their breasts with an editorial nostra culpa whenever Red gains ate chalked up anywhere in the world.” She [Gretta Palmer] inserted a parenthetical remark in the above sentence: “(or, staring fiercely at the Hierarchy, an even more vigorous vestra culpa)”—sentiments which I decline to accept as mine."
- "What we need as much as anything now are mea culpas from politicians who devised and facilitated this fiasco, and journalists who justified and excused it. […] I don't mean vostra culpas, nostra culpas, or even sua culpas, of the sort that the Richard Cohens and Tom Friedmans have tried to fob off on the world, […] I mean a frank admission of fault from everybody who bears some of the blame, offered with the humility owed by those who have harmed their country."