locus classicus
Americannoun
plural
loci classicinoun
Etymology
Origin of locus classicus
Latin: classical place
Example Sentences
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Samuel R. Delany’s “Dhalgren” is perhaps the most famous recent example, but the locus classicus remains David Lindsay’s “A Voyage to Arcturus.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2021
Saval ties his essay to “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Herman Melville’s locus classicus of clerical work.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 27, 2016
The locus classicus of this method was a recording of a blunt call between State Department official Toria Nuland and the American ambassador to Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt.
From Slate • Jul. 4, 2016
Perhaps the locus classicus is the 1977 movie Looking for Mr Goodbar, written and directed by Richard Brooks.
From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2015
The ninth chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans is the main reliance of the advocates of absolute predestinationism, though the passage is unfit to serve as a locus classicus because of its obscurity.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
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