ex animo
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Canon MacColl is genuinely and ex animo an ecclesiastic; but he is a politician as well.
From Collections and Recollections by Russell, George William Erskine
He hated ex animo all those aspects of Anglicanism which best recommend it to Erastian minds.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine
My mind bowed itself at once before the definition, and I believed the doctrine ex animo.
From John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir by Blair, David Hunter
In like manner I had made a charge, and I had made it ex animo; but I accused others of having led me into believing it and publishing it.
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry
At anyrate, there was no affectation in this; she thoroughly believed in her own superiority; her subscription to that creed was implicit and ex animo.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
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