Latinism

NOUN
  1. a word or phrase borrowed from Latin
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How To Use Latinism In A Sentence

  • Spain is Latin and its Latinism is expressed in the churches, but it is a productive country and it will be fine. The World in Perspective
  • Extra-vagant certainly may be construed out of bounds; we need no ghost with a mouthful of Syntax to tell us that; but Shakspeare had too much taste to adopt such an absurd Latinism. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
  • In this Latinism the preterit denotes that a thing or condition that once existed no longer exists. Modern Spanish Lyrics
  • ‘The founded world’ is indeed a pleasing Latinism, and congregations bred on such stuff should not suffer from flabbiness of thought. The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers
  • Unintelligible Latinisms litter the insides of the booklet, awkwardly coupling with sepulchral imagery.
  • Even in our ashes live their wonted fires, and where is the scholar who does not turn with delight from his history or his sermon to criticise a copy of verses, to _savourer_ a fine latinism or dig his pen through a false quantity as if he were cutting down an enemy? Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
  • Latinism was a flavor of the soul, and the modern soul rarely, if ever, assumes that flavor. White Ashes
  • 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. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
  • Positing, as above, too males pooles, the one the pictor of the other and the omber the Skotia of the one, and looking want-ingly around our undistributed middle between males we feel we must waistfully woent a female to focus and on this stage there pleasantly appears the cowrymaid M. whom we shall often meet below who introduces herself upon us at some precise hour which we shall again agree to call absolute zero or the babbling pumpt of platinism. Finnegans Wake
  • 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. White Ashes
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