novus ordo seclorum

[ noh-woos ohr-doh se-kloh-room; English noh-vuhs awr-doh se-klawr-uhm, -klohr- ]

Latin.

1. a new order of the ages (is born): motto on the reverse of the great seal of the United States (adapted from Vergil's Eclogues IV:5).

Example Sentences

“There was only one person who noticed and that was Stephen Colbert. On the back of my tuxedo jacket — which was sort of like an inverted priest jacket with the jacket being white and the collar being black — I had in big, black, gothic script, “Novus ordo seclorum.”

From New York Times

It’s one of the greatest inventions of all time, and just like it says on the dollar bill – novus ordo seclorum – it created an entirely new order in human affairs.

From The Guardian

Traditionally, the Illuminati Pyramid features the phrase "Novus Ordo Seclorum," or "A New Order of the Ages."

From The Verge

Traditionally, the illuminati pyramid features the phrase "Novus Ordo Seclorum," or "A New Order of the Ages."

From The Verge

The creation of the United States really was a Novus ordo seclorum, a New Order of the Ages, a society’s first self-aware, if fumbling and compromised, effort to live by the liberal expectation that autonomous individuals could govern themselves together without having to impose religious doctrines or mystical narratives of tribal blood or soil.

From Salon