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  • verb theater Used in stage directions; literally, he, she or it remains. Compare exit, exeunt.

Etymologies

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From Latin manet ("he remains"), manent ("they remain"), inflections of maneō.

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Examples

  • In fact, the dirty little secret of the internet is "Littera scripta manet" -- the written word survives.

    Book Reviewing 2010

  • Sit Trinitati sempiterna gloria, honor, potestas atque iubilatio, in unitate, cui manet imperium ex tunc et modo per æterna sæcula.

    Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009

  • Sit Trinitati sempiterna gloria, honor, potestas atque iubilatio, in unitate, cui manet imperium ex tunc et modo per æterna sæcula.

    Giovanni Vianini's bls 2009

  • The speech that suggested itself was said to be that which the Phantom of Cleonice dinned into the ears of the tyrant who murdered her: — “Tu cole justitiam; toque atque alios manet ultor.”

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Et mundus transit, et concupiscentia eius; qui autem facit voluntatem Dei, manet in aeternum.

    Archive 2008-05-11 papabear 2008

  • [2005] Hoc quoque te manet ut pueros elementa docentem

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Mens immota manet, though the body be torn in pieces with wild horses, broken on the wheel, pinched with fiery tongs, the soul cannot be distracted.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nos interim quod, attinet (nec enim immunes ab hac noxa sumus) idem realus manet, idem nobis, et si non multo gravius, crimen objici potest: nostra enim culpa sit, nostra incuria, nostra avaritia, quod tam frequentes, foedaeque fiant in

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quam mulcent aurae, firmat sol, educat imber, &c. Sic virgo dum intacta manet, dum chara suis, sed

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Non est amor desiderium aut appetitus ut ab omnibus hactenus traditim; nam cum potimur amata re, non manet appetitus; est igitur affectus quo cum re amata aut unimur, aut unionem perpetuamus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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