finis coronat opus

American  

[fee-nis-koh-roh-naht-oh-poos, fin-is kaw-roh-nat oh-puhs, koh-] / ˈfi nɪs koʊˈroʊ nɑtˈoʊ pʊs, ˈfɪn ɪs kɔˈroʊ næt ˈoʊ pəs, koʊ- /

Latin.

1. the end crowns the work.

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Example Sentences

And here, too, it will not be out of place to add a few words written after the inauguration, and finis coronat opus had been added to Henty’s descriptions of the great event.

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The Romans had the proverb, "Finis coronat opus," and an English proverb hath it: "'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end."

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A handsome viaduct ends the run, finis coronat opus, and I walk a hundred yards to see the awkward spot which at first seemed to have no bottom, but which energy and industry have conquered, as they conquer everything.

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At the ocean gateway of such a nation well may stand the stately figure of "Liberty enlightening the World;" and, in hope and faith, as well as gratitude, we write upon the towers of our beautiful Bridge, to be illuminated by her electric ray, the words of exultation, "Finis coronat opus."

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If the history of France in Africa ends in bringing the southern borderlands of the Mediterranean, the old haunts of the Barbary Corsairs, within the pale of civilization, it may some day be possible to bury the unhappy past, and inscribe upon the tombstone the optimistic motto: Finis coronat opus.

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