eo nomine
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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I do not know that there is a law in any State of the Union that eo nomine establishes slavery; I do not know.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)
Whatever is spiritual, is eo nomine supernatural; but must it be always and of necessity miraculous?
From Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
If a Freeholder is exempt, eo nomine, it will be impossible to go on with the pressing service.
From The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by Hutchinson, J. R. (John Robert)
But bockle and brownie are probably both foreign importations borrowed from books, though a ‘brownie’ eo nomine has been reported from Sennen within the last twenty years.
From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans
Mr. Hastings declares that they were not seized for the purpose of extorting money, but that they were seized in order to be punished for their crimes, and, eo nomine, for this crime of rebellion.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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