meum et tuum
AmericanEtymology
Origin of meum et tuum
C16: neuter of mēus mine and tuus yours
Example Sentences
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These never stunned me with clamors; I was never pestered by them to determine the meum et tuum between noisy disputants, neither of whom is exactly right.
From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by Simms, William Gilmore
In one fleeting minute Kirkwood's conception of the law of meum et tuum, its foundations already insidiously undermined by a series of cumulative misfortunes, toppled crashing to its fall; and was not.
From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph
There always appears to me to be a great want of moral principle in all radicals; indeed, the levelling principles of radicalism are adverse to the sacred rights of meum et tuum.
From Diary in America, Series One by Marryat, Frederick
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