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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