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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. With a slight qualification; with some allowance; not as literally true: as, to accept a statement cum grano salis.
Wiktionary
- adv. idiomatic With a grain of salt; with a bit of common sense and skepticism.
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- From Latin, see cum + grano + salis. (Wiktionary)
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