raison d'etre

NOUN
  1. reason for being
  2. the purpose that justifies a thing's existence
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How To Use raison d'etre In A Sentence

  • After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être. A DEAD LIBERTY
  • The other candidates in that election, had one of them won, would have continued to temporize, while Lincoln, in his own seemingly tentative style, refused to budge on the Republican Party's raison d'etre of no expansion of slavery into the territories. John Marszalek: What if Lincoln lost the election?
  • There are many reasons why such parties might be important, but their most significant raison d'être is one which could be described as epistemological in nature – that is, concerned with the nature, foundations and presuppositions of ‘knowledge’. Missing In Inaction: Why An Opposition Party Matters
  • After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être. A DEAD LIBERTY
  • Work seems to be her sole raison d'etre.
  • In fact, is an immune organ tonsil is part of the immune system, it has its raison d'etre.
  • After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être. A DEAD LIBERTY
  • It's all too easy to forget that while exams, finals and academic achievement all have their place they shouldn't be our raison d'être.
  • I think it's important to recognize the cost of war and to weight that cost against our raison d'être.
  • Its raison d'être is to engage politically apathetic young women. Times, Sunday Times
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