satispassion

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Etymology

From Latin satispassiō, a compound of satis (enough) and passio (suffering, or sufferance). Compare passion.

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satispassion (uncountable)

  1. (theology) Atonement by suffering to an adequate degree.
    • 1615 January 4 (Gregorian calendar), Lancelot Andrewes, “A Sermon Preached before the King’s Majesty, at Whitehall, on Sunday, the Twenty-fifth of December, A.D. MDCXIV. being Christmas-Day”, in J P W, editor, Ninety-six Sermons , volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker, published 1841, →OCLC, page 147:
      This, this is the great "with us;" [] "with us" in all the virtues and merits of His life; "with us" in the satisfaction and satispassion (both) of His death; []
    • 1678, Ignatius Brown, An Vnerrable Church or None, Being a Rejoynder to the Vnerring, Vnerrable Church: Againſt Dr Andrew Sall’s Repley entituled The Catholic Apoſtolic Church of England. Written by J. S. and dedicated to the moſt illuſtrious Prince, James Duke of Ormond, &c., chapter XX: “Purgatorie and Indulgences”, page 311:
      He muſt pay to Gods juſtice the temporal Puniſhment which he ows, and this is don either by Satispaſsion ſuffering the pains of Purgatorie for a certain time; or by the ſuffrages and penal works of the Living which they apply to him; or by Indulgence, applying from the treaſure of the Church, that’s of the ſuperabundant Satisfaction of Chriſt and his Saints, as much as will anſwer to the pains which they are to ſuffer there.
    • 1890, Walter John Bruce Richards, A Catechism on Indulgences, Burns & Oates, page 8:
      This may be made…by satispassion, or sufferings simply endured.
    • 1897, A Catholic Dictionary, 5th edition, Redemption:
      Like His satispassion, so His satisfaction embraces the whole earthly career of the Saviour.

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