But my favorite Latinism, which is actually quite useful. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Latin Phrases Law Students Should Know, But Likely Don’t:] Reference
Latinism was a flavor of the soul, and the modern soul rarely, if ever, assumes that flavor. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
What Latinism did, however, was to teach the appreciation of the dignity of time, the beauty of the passing years, and their enriching effect on things and men. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
If the Board of Education wants its teachers to instruct adolescents about HIV using Latinism of the academy, excluding vulgarism of the street, it should tell them so, plainly. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause] Reference
~Infámous~, having a bad name, ill-famed: a Latinism. From Wordnik.com. [Milton's Comus] Reference
This use of the participle is a Latinism: see note, l. From Wordnik.com. [Milton's Comus] Reference
Latinism and Mediterranean civilization, he now accepted as great truths. From Wordnik.com. [Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel] Reference
This is the passage; and a most flagrant instance it offers of pure Latinism. From Wordnik.com. [Memorials and Other Papers — Complete] Reference
In this Latinism the preterit denotes that a thing or condition that once existed no longer exists. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Spanish Lyrics] Reference
Spain is Latin and its Latinism is expressed in the churches, but it is a productive country and it will be fine. From Wordnik.com. [The World in Perspective] Reference
Latinism, like every new craze, became a passion, and ran through the less intelligent kinds of writing in a wild excess. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge] Reference
Among the medieval Greek theologians the most famous are the ninth-century Photius, well-known for his anti-Latinism; Michael. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
What a loss it would be had the magnificent rugged name of Rembrandt van Rhyn been exchanged for a smooth emasculated Latinism. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer in Holland] Reference
‘The founded world’ is indeed a pleasing Latinism, and congregations bred on such stuff should not suffer from flabbiness of thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers] Reference
This was altered in one edition to gold chains, showing more regard to the metal of which the chains of aldermen are made than to the beauty of the Latinism and. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2] Reference
On the busiest thoroughfares in the city, just in the busiest part, between two of the most crowded and conservative of cross-streets, lies this alley of Latinism. From Wordnik.com. [Violets and Other Tales] Reference
Elsewhere the dogmatic summary of Hume's "Essays" illustrates the lingering eighteenth-century Latinism that had been previously travestied in the more stilted passages of the letters of Burns. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Carlyle] Reference
It must be remembered that in the second half of the fourth century the Greek attitude, broadened and fully conscious of itself, set itself more and more against Latinism, above all, politically. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Augustin] Reference
In respect of words which are now entirely received by the whole nation, it is often possible to designate the writers who first substituted them for some affected Gallicism or unnecessary Latinism. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
And it is an interesting notion -- though perhaps only a notion -- that Rumania should be the outpost or rear-guard of Latinism in this part of the world; a bit of the restless West on the edge of the Orient. From Wordnik.com. [Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them] Reference
I didn’t intend for the dramatic pause, but “qua” is my favorite, useful, Latinism. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Latin Phrases Law Students Should Know, But Likely Don’t:] Reference
"His Latinism led him to believe, it sometimes seemed, that he was living in Julius Caesar's time. From Wordnik.com. [Banquets of the Black Widowers]
4 federal errors: a Latinism for mistakes sanctioned by custom. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
Latinism for the Greek autouoloi. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
This is, to use an apt Latinism, illiterate. From Wordnik.com. [Forbes.com: News] Reference
Magotta, or Magot, is manifestly a Latinism of. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century] Reference
While he could hardly use the abstract Latinism. From Wordnik.com. [EQUALITY] Reference
One might pass on the flavor of Latinism. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
Latinism and rare). From Wordnik.com. [Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois] Reference
"Pan-Latinism," and the rest. From Wordnik.com. [The New World of Islam] Reference
Latinism, as a creed, is dead, or dying. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
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