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Latin gratuitus, from gratus Date: 1656 1 a: given unearned or without recompense b: not involving a return benefit, compensation, or consideration c: costing nothing: free
Latest Articles 2009
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Talk about negative advertising and attack mode - Can any Liberal anywhere say anything without throwing a gratuitus slam against Conservatives?
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as a designer frustrated with useless concepts and gratuitus styling, i applaud your critique.
Jumping Through Hoops: What Does Everyone Have Against Hubs? BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Brutal killers, killing for no reason, gratuitus violence that doesn’t even go with the “mythology”.
The Tail Section » Ratings for the Season 4 Finale Are In 2008
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How should your hearts be endeared in love to God! The schoolmen distinguish a twofold love, amor gratuitus, a love of bounty — that is, God’s love to us in forgiving; and amor debitus, a love of duty — that is, our love to God by way of return: We should show our love by admiring God, by sweetly solacing ourselves in him, and binding ourselves to him in a perpetual covenant.
The Lord's Prayer 1692
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