thoro
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The most thoro scholars have found this task no easy affair.
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
Persons seeking at the hands of the civil law relief in matrimonial troubles should have the right to ask for divorce a vinculo, or simple separation a mensâ et thoro, as they may elect.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll
You should have gone to the ecclesiastical court and there obtained against your wife a decree a mensa et thoro.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
Whether he obtained from his wife a divorce de thoro, is not handed down.
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
Having succeeded thus far, you should have employed a proctor, and instituted a suit in the Ecclesiastical Court for a divorce a mensâ et thoro; that would have cost you £200 or £300 more.
From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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