semper idem

[ sem-per-ee-dem; English sem-per ahy-dem, id-em ]

Latin.
  1. always the same.

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How to use semper idem in a sentence

  • Not semper idem but semper alterum is the keynote of science.

    The Necessity of Atheism | Dr. D.M. Brooks
  • This sign was the words found upon him when he was discovered floating, tied to the buoy of the "Cynthia," "semper idem."

    The Waif of the "Cynthia" | Andr Laurie and Jules Verne
  • As many will remember, the case of semper idem aroused a vast deal of unseemly yet highly natural curiosity.

  • For want of a better name, the rescued suicide was known to the hospital attendants, and to the world, as semper idem.

  • Across a corner of the mount, in delicate feminine tracery, was written: "semper idem; semper fidelis."