offensive to pious ears
adjEtymology
Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin piārum aurium offēnsīvus.
- derived from piārum aurium offēnsīvus
Definitions
Describing a doctrine or proposition that is not heretical, but formulated improperly or…
Describing a doctrine or proposition that is not heretical, but formulated improperly or ambiguously and hence liable to cause scandal. A formal censure.
- It is therefore impossible from Exsurge Domine alone to determine whether proposition 36 is condemned as heretical or merely as “offensive to pious ears.”
- 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.
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