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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an acknowledgment of your error or guilt;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Peccavi \Pec*ca"vi\ [L.] I have sinned; -- used colloquially to express confession or acknowledgment of an offense; -- used rarely, superseded by the approximate equivalent mea culpa. --Aubrey. [1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mea culpa n 1: an acknowledgment of your error or guilt