English

Alternative forms

• satis-passion, satispaßion [17th C.]

Noun

satispassion ‎(uncountable)

1. (theology) Atonement by suffering to an adequate degree.
   • 1614, Bp Lancelot Andrewes, XCVI Sermons (1629), page 77:

     This, this is the great With us:…With us, in all the vertues and merits of His life; With us, in the satisfaction and satis-passion (both) of His death.

   • 1678, Ignatius Brown, An Vnerrable Church or None, Being a Rejoynder to the Vnerring, Vnerrable Church: Againſt D^r 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 [reparation for sin] may be made…by satispassion, or sufferings simply endured.

   • 1897, A Catholic Dictionary (5th ed.), “Redemption”:

     Like His satispassion, so His satisfaction embraces the whole earthly career of the Saviour.

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References

• “Satispassion” on page 124/1 of part ii (S–Sh, ed. Henry Bradley) of volume VIII (Q–Sh, 1914) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)
• “satispassion” in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989)