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English
Etymology
Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin piārum aurium offēnsīvus.
Adjective
offensive to pious ears
- (Roman Catholicism) Describing a doctrine or proposition that is not heretical, but formulated improperly or ambiguously and hence liable to cause scandal. A formal censure.
1910, William John Sparrow-Simpson, Roman Catholic Opposition to Papal Infallibility, page 121:And Bishop Ullathorne concluded by condemning the journal as “containing propositions which are respectively subversive of the faith, heretical, approaching to heresy, erroneous, derogatory to the teaching of the Church, and offensive to pious ears.”
1969, Harry J. McSorley, Luther: Right or Wrong? An Ecumenical-Theological Study of Luther’s Major Work, The Bondage of the Will, page 252:It is therefore impossible from Exsurge Domine alone to determine whether proposition 36 is condemned as heretical or merely as “offensive to pious ears.”
2009, Christopher M. Bellitto, “The Reform Context of the Great Western Schism”, in Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Thomas M. Izbicki, editors, A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378–1417), →ISBN, page 317:An investigatory commission in Oxford in 1378 declared that some of Wycliffe’s criticism were not incorrect in se but could be offensive to pious ears.