satispassion

Alternative forms

 * , satispaßion

Etymology
From, a compound of and. Compare.

Noun

 * 1)  Atonement by suffering to an adequate degree.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 1890, Walter John Bruce Richards, A Catechism on Indulgences,, page 8:
 * This [reparation for sin] may be made…by satispassion, or sufferings simply endured.
 * This [reparation for sin] may be made…by satispassion, or sufferings simply endured.

Translations

 * Latin: satispassiō