eo ipso
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Again, one white ball A is similar in colour to another white ball B. Paint the latter black, and eo ipso the former loses its relation of resemblance without any real change in itself.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
The dragon, I hold, is the personification of the life within the earth—of that life which, being unknown and uncontrollable, is eo ipso hostile to man.
From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman
Now, at first sight, it appears that this motive can never exist except on one side, because it, eo ipso, must be prejudicial to the other.
From On War — Volume 1 by Graham, J. J., Colonel
Every increase or decrease of sanctifying grace must eo ipso entail a corresponding increase or decrease, respectively, of theological charity.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
An understanding, through whose self-consciousness all the manifold would eo ipso be given, would perceive; our understanding can only think and must seek its perception in the senses.
From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur
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