totidem verbis
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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He does not say so totidem verbis, because he does not dare, but he manages to convey as much in answer to a question his mother asked him.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles
Mr. M'Culloch has asserted, totidem verbis, that the labour of Madame Pasta was as well entitled to be called productive labour as that of a cotton spinner.
From Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart
The argument used there might be repeated totidem verbis here.
From Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" by Lightfoot, Joseph Barber
I was half converted to Transubstantiation by Tillotson's common senses against it; seeing clearly that the same grounds totidem verbis et syllabis would serve the Socinian against all the mysteries of Christianity.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Those who take the Bible to be totidem verbis dictated by the God of Truth can refuse to believe it; and they make strange reasons.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene
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