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‖ felix culpa, n.|ˈfiːlɪks ˈkʌlpə, ˈfeɪlɪks ˈkʊlpɑː|
Rarely culpa felix.
[L., lit. ‘happy fault’, from the Exultet in the liturgy for Holy Saturday.]
Allusively, the Fall of Man or the sin of Adam as resulting in the blessedness of the Redemption. Freq. transf., an apparent error or tragedy which has happy consequences.
1913Maclean's Mag. Oct. 42/2 Shall we call it a culpa felix that brought you to me? 1963L. Trilling in N. Frye Romanticism Reconsidered 97 We dread Eden, and of all Christian concepts there is none which we understand so well as the felix culpa and the ‘fortunate fall’. 1977Washington Post 23 Sept. b10/6 Benevolent critics are beginning to see papal policy..as a felix culpa..in the sense that it has given the population problem a prominence it would never have achieved without the fracas that accompanied..Humanae Vitae in 1968. 1986Time 10 Nov. 25/1 He was crushed in a landslide of historic proportions. Today he sees it all as a kind of felix culpa, a happy fall. |