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- noun Plural form of
Latinism .
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Examples
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It may well be that Latinisms as used in the law avoided that process, essentially becoming frozen over time, because of the strongly conservative strain as to matters of form that always characterized the common law.
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It may well be that Latinisms as used in the law avoided that process, essentially becoming frozen over time, because of the strongly conservative strain as to matters of form that always characterized the common law.
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And if you doubt that it's work, you should read my first drafts, with their convoluted sentences and polysyllabic Latinisms and the weird little placeholder words that substitute for the mot juste that has somehow escaped me, but that I'll try to reach later.
Archive 2009-11-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009
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And if you doubt that it's work, you should read my first drafts, with their convoluted sentences and polysyllabic Latinisms and the weird little placeholder words that substitute for the mot juste that has somehow escaped me, but that I'll try to reach later.
The Perils of Lucidity Walter Jon Williams 2009
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I do not see the necessity of such Latinisms as “dilated” or
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During one of the group's first meetings, in 1872, he explained this designation with a definition from a dictionary of Latinisms: ACOLYTE: said of one that follows another as if he were his shadow.
'The Paris Enigma' 2008
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These allusions, unlike the throwaway Latinisms of Hogwarts 'spells, drive the plot, characters and themes of Mr. Pullman's series.
The Anti-Potter 2007
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These allusions, unlike the throwaway Latinisms of Hogwarts 'spells, drive the plot, characters and themes of Mr. Pullman's series.
His Dark Material Leslie Baynes 2007
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Perhaps worthy of a separate thread: The use of Latinisms or other languages –isms in an incorrect way.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Most Commonly Misspelled Phrases: 2007
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Read today, Rynne's letters seem overly detailed and often musty in their Latinisms ( "Anything but a superficial observation of the first session of Vatican Council II at this time would be temerarious," one piece began), but they influenced the thinking of many American Catholics now over fifty, and set the tone for much progressive Catholic journalism.
In Search of a Pope 2004
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