Definitions
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- adjective
Fleeing .
Etymologies
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From Latin fugientem, present participle of fugo ("flee").
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Examples
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Rōmānīs resistent, sed defessī longō proelīo fugient.
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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et timor informem ducet in ore notam, et quaecumque uoles fugient tibi uerba querenti,
Warning to a Rival 1912
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tempora di superi? cuncta manus auidas fugient heredis amico
Tow Poems on the Return of Spring Horace 1912
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A new era, a new shape of society, a new discovery of the mighty faculties of nations, of the wonders of mind, of matter, and of man; a vast shaking of the earth and its institutions; and out of this chaos, a new moral creation, _fiat lux et fugient tenebræ_. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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