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Meaning of non serviam | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A formal refusal to serve.

Examples

“Two months later he issued his notorious non serviam, “A Soldier's Declaration.” He expected to be court-martialed for this, but his friend Robert Graves managed to arrange that he face a medical board instead.”

“In her memoirs, she wrote that she heard him speak, but his words floated away from her; it was as if her brain, already choked by the day's horrors, had issued a non serviam and refused to absorb any more.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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See also

non- non-24 non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder non-A-E hepatitis non-A, non-B hepatitis Non-addressable

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