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Meaning of nil desperandum | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. nothing to be despaired of
  2. never despair.
  3. I am not going to give up. Not for giving up, as in: this is not for giving up on.

Examples

“Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro (there is nothing to despair about with Teucer as our leader and Teucer as our protector).”

Horace, Odes, I.vii.27 (translation Benham's Book of Quotations).

CEFR level

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

See also

nil sub sole novum nisi quod nodum in scirpo quaerere noisi nomen est omen nomen nescio

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