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Canossa

[ kuh-nos-uh; Italian kah-naws-sah ]

noun

  1. a ruined castle in N Italy: scene of the penance of Emperor Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire before Pope Gregory VII in 1077.


Canossa

/ ka藞nossa; k蓹藞n蓲s蓹 /

noun

  1. a ruined castle in N Italy, in Emilia near Reggio nell'Emilia: scene of the penance done by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV before Pope Gregory VII
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. go to Canossa, to humble oneself.
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Example Sentences

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Hence the pilgrimage to the diner in Iowa is a form of penance, like the road to Canossa in medieval times.

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Drawing from endless documents about King Henry鈥檚 visit to Canossa, ChatGPT might well make the same mistake.

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Crossing the Alps, Henry appeared in January 1077 as a penitent before the castle of Canossa, where Gregory had taken 276 refuge.

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He displayed much diplomatic ability, and his abasement at Canossa may fairly be regarded as a move of policy to weaken the pope鈥檚 position at the cost of a personal humiliation to himself.

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There exist indeed some difficulties, respecting these three acts: why has the first been allowed to go astray? wherefore do historians say, it was signed at Canossa, while it is referred to in the second, as having been subscribed at Rome?

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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