ex vi termini

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    The claim of a privilege seems rather, ex vi termini, to imply a superior power...

    1906, Edmund Burke, quotee, edited by William Jennings Bryan, The World's Famous Orations, volume 6: Ireland, page 28
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    Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people—less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their own character.

    1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, page 116

    A college ball is, ex vi termini, a college matter and should surely take place in the college.

    2025 August 4, Honcques Laus, Ceremonial mistakes in My Oxford Year, Cherwell

Origin

From Latin, ēx (“out of”) + vī, ablative singular of vīs (“force”) + terminī, genitive singular of terminus (“word”).

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