utinam

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noun

A fervent wish.

OriginLatin utinam →
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Meanings

nounutinam (plural utinams)

plural utinams

  1. obsoleteA fervent wish.

    now can the Will which hath a power to run into velleities, and wishes of impossibilities, have any utinam of this.

    1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.10

Origin

  1. Latinutinam
  2. Englishutinam

From Latin utinam.

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APA

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Chicago

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