fons et origo
Americannoun
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Her symptoms all pointed to the nervous system as the fons et origo mali.
From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Edward Hammond Clarke
I am now, however, dealing with South Carolina, which has been the fons et origo of the secession doctrines and their development into the full life of the Confederate States.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
As to the source of the Tweed there is the curious paradox that what passes for its source is not the real fons et origo of the stream.
From In the Border Country by W. S.
If truth be the universal fons et origo, how does error slip in?
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
Harold was soon all smiles and grease; and I was not, on the whole, dissatisfied with the significant hint that had been gained as to the fons et origo mali.
From The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame
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