attrition
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9.5
- noun
- /əˈtrɪʃən/
- Specialized
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atrición
- An administrator active in promoting B/I refers to the process in which faculty members have seen their college transformed as an "attrition of soul."
Examples
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Attrition's when you regret your sins... ...but not for love of God.
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Many people consider attrition a sin.
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Schroeder's comments on epidemic disease chronology and settlement attrition call for some observations.
Academic text (1993) -
It was, he argued, the Detroit community's more rigid religious orientation that precluded necessary adaptations of religious practice to the new American environment that accounted for its attrition.
Academic text (1993) -
In Christian theology, attrition refers to the sorrow for sin that arises from the fear of punishment rather than from love of God.
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Many believers understand attrition as regret for their sins primarily due to fear of divine retribution.
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The priest explained that attrition involves feeling sorry for one's sins because of the fear of God's judgment.
Synonyms
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6.6
A feeling of deep regret and a wish to change after doing wrong
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8.4
A deep feeling of regret and sorrow for something you did wrong
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7.9
A feeling of being sorry for something you did wrong
A deep feeling of regret and sorrow for doing something wrong
Compounds
How Remorseful
Surface Forms
Morphology
attrition = attrite (opaque) = attrit + ion
The theological sense (sorrow for sin motivated by fear of punishment) is historically specialized and not derivable by an average learner from the basic verb 'attrite'.
Etymology
Attrition in church language also comes from Latin ad- 'to' and terere 'to rub', with the idea of a heart being slowly worn down. So in theology attrition means sorrow that comes mainly from fear rather than from true love, unlike contrition 'crushing remorse'.