piacular
( pahy-AK-yuh-ler ) adjective;
Expiatory; atoning; reparatory.
…and this high-ranking Greek guy actually came around to 1009 after Saturday’s supper to apologize on behalf of practically the entire Chandris shipping line and to assure me that ragged-necked Lebanese heads were even at that moment rolling down various corridors in piacular recompense for my having had to carry my own bag.
— David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Things I’ll Never Do Again
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