nil admirari

American  

[neel ahd-mee-rah-ree, nil ad-mi-rair-ahy, -rair-ee] / ˈnil ˌɑd miˈrɑ ri, ˈnɪl ˌæd mɪˈrɛər aɪ, -ˈrɛər i /

Latin.

1. to wonder at nothing.

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nil admirari

The look of nil admirari boredom slowly faded from the face of the smart and dapper Brigade-Major, and for a while it displayed quite human emotions.

From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren

"It's pretty Miss Harriet," said Mick looking up at the ceiling with a careless nil admirari glance.

From Sybil, or the Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

He has none of the colonial nil admirari spirit, but looks at England as a Greek colonist would have looked at Athens. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge

These old-fashioned folk had not learnt the trick of nil admirari.

From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood

One man practises his bump of veneration on all he meets; another travels on the nil admirari principle.

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles

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