| I have not been able to get Canossa out of my head, since I found out what it means this morning-and here it is once again.
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A.Word.A.Day--Canossa
Canossa (kuh-NOS-uh, Italian: kah-NOS-sah) noun
A place of humiliation or penance. Mostly used in the form "go to Canossa":
to humble or humiliate oneself, to eat humble pie.
[From the name of a castle in Canossa, a village in Italy, where Roman
emperor Henry IV sought pardon before Pope Gregory VII in 1077.]
"If I were to believe what you do about the policies of Russia there would
be no way out for me but to crawl to Canossa ... "
Edward S. Shapiro; Letters of Sidney Hook: Democracy, Communism, and
the Cold War; M. E. Sharpe, 1995.
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