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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Ingens saltus, remarks Bengel, with his customary brevity and graphic power.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
The apparent springs "saltus vel transitus etiam longissimos," he explains by the same thought having been a component part of two or more total impressions.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But Rice is an imitative form of Welsh Rhys, Reece, and Salt, when not derived from Salt in Stafford, is from Old Fr. sault, a wood, Lat. saltus.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
You have certainly given the lie to the saying: natura non facit saltus by the unnatural leap that you've taken.
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II by Gerhart Hauptmann
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 — Volume 18 by Charles Cotton
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