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adj
Describing a doctrine or proposition that is not heretical, but formulated improperly or ambiguously and hence liable to cause scandal. A formal censure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin piārum aurium offēnsīvus.
