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mea culpa

[mey-uh kuhl-puh, mee-uh, me-ah kool-pah]

interjection

  1. my fault! (used as an acknowledgment of one's responsibility).



noun

plural

mea culpas 
  1. an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.

mea culpa

/ ˈmeɪɑː ˈkʊlpɑː /

  1. an acknowledgment of guilt

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

mea culpa

  1. An expression from Catholic ritual that assigns blame to oneself: “I gave you the wrong directions to my house — mea culpa.” From Latin, meaning “my fault” or “my blame.”

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of mea culpa1

From Latin: literally “through my fault”; mea culpa def. 1 was first recorded in 1200–50, and mea culpa def. 2 in 1815–20; culpa ( def. )
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of mea culpa1

literally: my fault
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I don’t want to wait until Jake Tapper writes a post-mortem book about Trump and then goes on another mea culpa tour to publicize it.

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In a mea culpa statement to the court, Hancock explained that the errors might have crept into his declaration when he cut-and-pasted a note to himself.

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But his mea culpa did little to appease the public.

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The murderous mea culpa was shared in a trailer for the upcoming Peacock docuseries "Making Manson."

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In other words, she could suck the power out of Trump’s demagoguery with a truthful, disarming mea culpa, display a capacity for learning and follow with a forceful declaration of victory.

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What doesmea culpa mean?

Mea culpa is the Latin way of saying my bad. It literally means “through my (own) fault.”Mea culpa can be used as an interjection (much like my fault or my bad) or as a noun referring to an apology, as in The senator offered a mea culpa during the press conference.Example: Dave usually has a hard time admitting he’s wrong, so his mea culpa means a lot.

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