saltus
Americannoun
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saltuses
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of saltus
1655–65; < New Latin, Latin: a leap. See salt 2
Example Sentences
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But as to the people about us, the hundredth part of them could not be saved: "Videas desertaque regna Pastorum, et longe saltus lateque vacantes."
From The Essays of Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
There is here, apparently, not only a step in development but a saltus mortalis, a dividing and impassable gulf.
From No Refuge but in Truth by Goldwin Smith
Ingens saltus, remarks Bengel, with his customary brevity and graphic power.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
There is an old adage which says Natura non facit saltus, Nature takes no leaps.
From The League of Nations and its Problems Three Lectures by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim
I see you are inclined to advocate the possibility of considerable "saltus" on the part of Dame Nature in her variations.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Leonard Huxley
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