culpa in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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mea culpa [Brit ˌmeɪə ˈkʊlpə, ˌmiːə ˈkʌlpə, Am ˌmeɪə ˈkʊlpə] N INTERJ

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mea culpa!, it's my fault!
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It may take one of two forms: intention (dolus); or negligence (culpa).
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Or was the mea culpa media column enough?
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The causal nexus was broken if there intervened, between the culpa of the defendant and the damage, some other cause without which the damage would not have occurred.
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He further said that the concept was end-to-end mea culpa, full of clarifications, rectifications and excuses, revising the history of a man who knows he doesn't have much time left.
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Once the creditor falls into mora, the debtor is liable only for dolus or culpa lata.
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We've counselled companies to do that, to do the full faceplant mea culpa.
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It earned a mea culpa from city officials.
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This is something of a mea culpa for the fossil fuel heavyweight.
theconversation.com
In the philosophy of religion, felix culpa is considered as a category of theodicy in response to the problem of evil.
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We could not call them mea culpas because that means "through my fault" and the acknowledging of having done wrong, which they certainly did not.
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