attrite

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Do they still dare deny that by faith we obtain the remission of sins, or that faith is a part of repentance Thirdly, the adversaries say that sin is remitted; because an attrite or contrite person elicits an act of love to God [if we undertake from reason to love God], and by this act merits to receive the remission of sins.

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  1. Worn by rubbing or friction. Milton.
  2. In theology, imperfectly contrite or repentant. See attrition, 3. He that was attrite being, by virtue of this [the priest's] absolution, made contrite and justified. Abp. Ussher, Ans. to a Jesuit, v.

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  • Before we can restore the republic we have to slow and then attrite the liberal gains that challenge us. —  NewsByUs
  • We had a very specific back to back tariff with BT and the program management that we put in place for that business to attrite off of the network was almost mapping that one for one. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • Do they still dare deny that by faith we obtain the remission of sins, or that faith is a part of repentance Thirdly, the adversaries say that sin is remitted; because an attrite or contrite person elicits an act of love to God [if we undertake from reason to love God], and by this act merits to receive the remission of sins. —  Apology of the Augsburg Confession
  • The air attrite to fire; as late the clouds —  Paradise Lost
  • The air attrite to fire; —  Milton
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  1. from Latin attritus, past participle of atterere, rub away, wear, from ad, to, + terere, rub: see trite.
 

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