ex animo
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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A man may retain Orders in the Church of England, if he pleases, while yet he repudiates her doctrines: may declare that he subscribes her Articles ex animo, and yet seem openly to deny them.
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by Burgon, John William
He had even made his peace with the Church and become, at any rate in all outward forms, perhaps ex animo, a devout Catholic.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe
In like manner I had made a charge, and I had made it ex animo; but I accused others of having, by their own example, led me into believing it and publishing it.
From Apologia Pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry
He obeyed ex animo my direction of "No flowers by request."
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe
Every word of the creeds had to be uttered ex animo.
From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Begbie, Harold
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