cruces

American  

[kroo-seez] / ˈkru siz /

noun

1. a plural of crux.

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cruces British  

/ ˈkruːsiːz /

noun

1. a plural of crux

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Example Sentences

Dirigido por un impetuoso gobernador de 35 años, Samuel García, el estado ha cortejado la inversión extranjera mientras busca mejorar las carreteras para facilitar el paso a los cruces fronterizos.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2023

Guillelmum Cathalani seniorem, Guillelmum ejus filium, Raymundum Veysiani, Bernardum Baronis, P. Lunatii, tanquam impeditores officii, cruces et pœnitentias minores.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

This is one of the textual cruces of the play.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton

In "Memories and Portraits," Stevenson says: "A good serious play must be founded on one of the passionate cruces of life, where duty and inclination come nobly to the grapple."

From Writing for Vaudeville by Page, Brett

Then after a page or two we come to the chief cruces of Moore's pathetic and of his comic manner, "The Last Rose of Summer," "The Young May Moon," and "The Minstrel Boy."

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George