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Explain the term contrapasso. To what does this term refer? What purposes does it serve within the text of inferno

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Contrapasso (or, in modern Italian, contrappasso) is derived from the Latin contra and patior, which mean "suffer the opposite".Contrapasso refers to the punishment of souls in Dante's Inferno, "by a process either resembling or contrasting with the sin itself."

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