adsum
Americaninterjection
Etymology
Origin of adsum
Latin
Example Sentences
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In the eight months that the class continued, the only words that passed between them were his name read from the roll and the daily adsum with which the student responded.
From The Reign of Greed by Charles E. Derbyshire
Unable to give utterance to the usual answer "adsum," he stood silent amid the general stare of his school-fellows, and, at last, burst into tears.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
It had been nothing at school—all the girls standing in the drill-room, rows of voices saying "adsum," then a Collect and the Lord's Prayer.
From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Dorothy Miller Richardson
Saturday.—Non adsum, because 'ad sum-where else to go.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 21 1890 by Various
When they were finished, the names were called, and Eric, instead of quietly answering his "adsum," as he should have done, stood up, with a foolish look, and said, "Yes, Sir."
From Eric by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
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