proprium

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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

For as a Nomen proprium is equivalent to a noun with the article, it can never stand in the stat. constr. with another noun.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

His idem propositum fuit quod regibus, ut ne qua re agerent, ne cui parerent, libertate uterentur: cujus proprium est sic vivere ut velis.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Diserto satis dicere quæ oporteat; ornate autem dicere proprium est eloquentissimi.

From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Döderlein, Ludwig