mutato nomine
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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In this description of "a Cotswold village" we have been looking on the bright side of things, and there is, thank Heaven! many a place, mutato nomine, that would answer to it.
From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur
As I grew older, and learned to use the terms matter and force, the boyish problem was revived, mutato nomine.
From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.
Surely his keen perception must have suggested to him, as he wrote this passage, "mutato nomine, deme."
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
Everything I said about Bernstein relates mutato nomine to him.
From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Laugh, but look to yourself: mutato nomine, de te fabula narratur.
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Thompson, Slason
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