Meaning of brutum fulmen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A judgement without effect.
2. An empty threat.
   archaic

Examples

“... it was a question only whether the one hundred and eighty inconsistent canons thus added to the Corpus Juris of the Church would remain a mere brutum fulmen, or whether they would be the source of endless litigation and schism.”

“Generally speaking the making of an order which will be a brutum fulmen serves no good purpose of justice.”

“The later order of May 8, 1984, purporting also to declare the same declaration of trust void and revoked, accomplished nothing. It was a brutum fulmen.”

“All These would have been Blasts of Wind, bruta Fulmina, no more, if the King had yielded ...”

“'But nobody heeds you, my worthy; it's mere waste of powder—shooting at emptiness, brutum fulmen—mere play-house thunder ...'”

“... he owed his success to the threat to march on the capital, which would have been a brutum fulmen had it been capable of withstanding a siege.”

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