in esse
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of in esse
Latin, literally: in being
Example Sentences
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It was one thing to grant control over all domestic concerns to a population in esse, and another and quite different thing to grant control to a people in posse.
From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Johnson, Allen
Position is of small account, though the line is always drawn at shopkeepers in esse.
From Town Life in Australia by Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell
Shall they not perish because the potential guilt was not, by pure accident, accomplished in esse?
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
I must confess, however, staunch Tory of the most crusted and mediæval type though I be, that all this array of sovereigns in esse or in posse seems very dull, and bores me to yawning-point.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
At breakfast she holds a sort of levée of persons of all sorts—ministers in esse or in posse, professors, artists, English strangers, and foreigners from all parts of the world.
From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by d'Auvergne, Edmund B.
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