Meaning of vexata quaestio | Babel Free

Definitions

A vexed, unresolved, or intractable question.

Examples

“On entering upon this question, he states it to be one of great difficulty—a vexata quaestio as it were, and one which had at all times much divided, and at the time he wrote, still continued to divide the opinions of great jurists.”

“It may actually boil down to the vexata quaestio of how different must language varieties become in order to be considered independent.”

“European intervention in the social sphere—and annexed questions such as why, to what extent and in what way—has long been a vexata quaestio.”

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