passim

American  

[pas-im] / ˈpæs ɪm /

adverb

Latin.

1. here and there: used in bibliographic references to indicate that the writer has drawn upon material scattered throughout the source cited.

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passim British  

/ ˈpæsɪm /

adverb

1. here and there; throughout: used to indicate that what is referred to occurs frequently in the work cited

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passim Cultural  

1. A word used in footnotes and similar material to indicate that a word or subject occurs frequently. For example, an entry in an index reading “coal: 78–86 passim” means that coal is mentioned throughout pages 78 to 86. Passim is Latin for “throughout” or “here and there.”

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Example Sentences

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passim

They were incisive and inventive and – in a development wholly uncharacteristic of Scottish sides passim – clinical in attack.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2016

The significance of the incident was that one important Governmental agency accepted in passim the League's contraceptive activities as normal and acceptable in present U. S. culture.

From Time Magazine Archive

We might appeal to its pages almost passim to establish these facts.

From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by Fitzhugh, George

See 1st Series, vol. i., course of 1817, Discours d'Ouverture, vol. ii., lecture 1, and especially 2d Series, vol. iii., passim.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

We find it in C. 89 et passim.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar