a quo
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So, basically, a quid and a quo but not a pro.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2019
The U.S. attorney saw double — a quid and a quo.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2015
While the negotiations go on, Nixon obviously has nothing to gain by trumpeting his quids before the other side can respond with a quo or two.
From Time Magazine Archive
If ix.-xiv. be a unity, a definite terminus a quo is provided in ix.
From Introduction to the Old Testament by John Edgar McFadyen
Condemned though they be by some thinkers, these sensations are the mother-earth, the anchorage, the stable rock, the first and last limits, the terminus a quo and the terminus ad quem of the mind.
From The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey by Delton Loring Geyer
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