proprium
Example Sentences
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Se-cundus: "Ego quoque possem, si meum proprium dictionarium scripsissem."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was not without meaning that, as early as in the apostolic times, the "Saints" was a kind of nomen proprium of believers, comp.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
That man cooks his food is probably a genuine proprium.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
The latter expression had become so much a nomen proprium of Jerusalem, that the full depth of its meaning was no more thought of.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
Cujus ratio est, quia sapientia est potissima perfectio rationis, cujus proprium est cognoscere ordinem....
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
