donec
Americanconjunction
Etymology
Origin of donec
From Latin
Example Sentences
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I was recently fired by my company because I added “non desinetis vapulare donec animi vobis fuerint refecti” at the bottom of my email signature line.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2023
He had many wholesome maxims ready to excuse all miscarriages of state: Men are but men; Erunt vitia donec homines; and, Quod supra nos, nil ad nos; with several others of equal weight.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift
Through love for her he adopted her favorite colors, and took for his device the crescent, with the words, "Totum donec compleat orbem."
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird
It was not known till the iron age, donec facinus invasit mortales, as the poet says; and the Scythians always detested it.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
"The scroll explains all," he said, as if in reference to the attack upon them: "it is totum donec impleat orbem."
From Orrain A Romance by S. Levett-Yeats
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