coram populo
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Of late their outbreaks have not been confined to night-work, but take place in open daylight, coram populo et police.
From Town Life in Australia by Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell
A Solicitor who does not strive to appear coram populo on terms of quite unnecessarily familiar intercourse with his leading Counsel.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892 by Various
I did not, of course, tear my hair coram populo over my loss, and she took it for lordly indifference.
From Falk A Reminiscence by Conrad, Joseph
In the elder play, the Bastard does "the shaking of bags of hoarding abbots," coram populo, and thereby discloses a phase of monastic life judiciously suppressed by Shakspere.
From Elizabethan Demonology by Spalding, Thomas Alfred
Such borrowings take place coram populo, and are in the nature of a public homage.
From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Bithell, Jethro
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