Meaning of exempli gratia | Babel Free

Definitions

For the sake of an example.

Examples

“Exempli gratiâ, the venerable London Stone of many fables.”

“Even if the respondents had been liable for their administration to the same extent as private trustees, I should still have thought that it was not only within the competency, but that it was the duty of the Court, before pronouncing any decree, to consider how far the respondents might be entitled to recoup themselves, by taking, exempli gratia, the furniture of the school, or by accumulating the future income of these bequests, and what effect their so doing might have upon the efficient maintenance of the school.”

“See, exempli gratia, the encyclical of Leo XIII on the occasion of the third centennial of the Blessed Canisius, who organized, with Emperor Ferdinand, the first merciless repression of the Reformation in Austria.”

“There is not enough for certainty, but I set out below a possible scheme, exempli gratia.”

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