qua
as; as being; in the character or capacity of: The work of art qua art can be judged by aesthetic criteria only.
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For a post to rank on Google, it is well understood that thoroughness is a sine qua non.
SEO on a shoestring budget: What small business owners can do to win | Ali Faagba | June 4, 2020 | Search Engine WatchResponding with alarm, they seek to buttress the idea of Jewish ethnicity qua Jewish peoplehood.
I suppose I plead guilty to that, but I would say that it's not the form qua form that I suspect I will object to about ZDT.
More on Propaganda and Art, and the Well Bought Turn | Michael Tomasky | December 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThat accumulation of identities is already a sine qua non when speaking of Hispanics, like Zimmerman.
George Zimmerman, Hispanics, and the Messy Nature of American Identity | Ilan Stavans | April 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the land of the industrial revolution, foreign ownership and management is the sine qua non of industrial success.
This unsmoked, wet-cured ham is the sine qua non of Parisian butcher shops: a light, ephemeral meat, sweet but umami.
It teaches you to take your time, or as the Germans call it, it gives you "Ruhe (repose)," the grand sine qua non!
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FaySolemnior ea processio fuit, qua sanctissimum Sacramentum festo ipsi die cumtulimus.
Civitas opulenta, dives, fecunda, in qua nemo vivat otiosus.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)I could never be induced to take the faintest interest in Brompton qua Brompton or a drawing-room qua a drawing-room.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonMasochismus Larvatus est species hujus degenerationis in qua sordes physicae sordibus adduntur moralibus.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin Malley
British Dictionary definitions for qua
/ (kweɪ, kwɑː) /
in the capacity of; by virtue of being
Origin of qua
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