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- proper noun Plural form of
Latin .
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Examples
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The frivolity of the laughter-loving Latins is no part of him.
Chapter 10 1904
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Thus the two towns stood side by side as tribes forming one state, and it is merely a recognition of the ancient tradition when we call the Latins _Ramnes_, and the Sabines _Tities_; that the derivation of these appellations from
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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He said that he was of the Greek religion, to which he professed strong attachment, and soon discovering that I was a Protestant, spoke with unbounded abhorrence of the Papal system, nay of its followers in general, whom he called Latins, and whom he charged with the ruin of his own country, inasmuch as they sold it to the Turk.
Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society George Henry Borrow 1842
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I was a Protestant, spoke with unbounded abhorrence of the papal system; nay of its followers in general, whom he called Latins, and whom he charged with the ruin of his own country, inasmuch as they sold it to the Turk.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
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He said that he was of the Greek religion, to which he professed strong attachment, and soon discovering that I was a Protestant, spoke with unbounded abhorrence of the papal system; nay of its followers in general, whom he called Latins, and whom he charged with the ruin of his own country, inasmuch as they sold it to the
The Bible in Spain 1712
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Latins is drawn in Nicetas by the hand of prejudice and resentment.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Latins is not less devoid of truth, than the thousand bishops, whom their patriarch offered at the feet of the Roman pontiff.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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This division of the sandy, the stony, and the happy, so familiar to the Greeks and Latins, is unknown to the Arabians themselves; and it is singular enough, that a country, whose language and inhabitants have ever been the same, should scarcely retain a vestige of its ancient geography.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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At the beginning, the attacks were directed at the "Latins" - foreigners from Germany and France.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters Samuel Vaknin
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It's a very very good chapter on the complexity of the idea of Latins in medieval England: Indeed, the divide between Latin literacy and illiteracy was always unstable and permeable.
Wallace (ed), Middle English Literature Miglior acque 2005
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