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Non sinit conscientia tales homines recta verba proferre, aut rectis quenquam oculis aspicere, ab omni hominum coetu eosdem exterminat, et dormientes perterrefacit.
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The Latin word “proferentem” is the accusative case, following the preposition “contra”, of the third declension noun “proferens” which word is itself the gerund formed from the present participle of the verb “proferre”.
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Deo non esse curae aliaque infinita quae proferre non audebant, vel abhorrebant.
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Vaticanae in linguam Latinam versos in interrete proferre.
04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004
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And it is frequently applied unto speaking, when it signifies "eloqui aut proferre verba more scaturiginis."
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Antiqui Romanorum Aeolis sequentes loco aspirationis earn (F) ponebant, effugientes ipsi quoque aspirationem, et maxime cum consonante recusabant eam proferre in Latino sermone.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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Would it not read much more civilized, if the annals of the empire were telling us: _Nero, jam divus, leniter dixit: O Seneca, Pundit delectabilis et philosophe laute, quis dubitet te libentissime mihi hodie proferre artocreatem stoicum?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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Hence, proferre must necessarily become offerre, even if it were true that the Hiphil word is not an hieratic sacrificial term; but even this is not quite certain (cf. Judges vi, 18 sq.).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Scis me haec et uera proferre et in nulla umquam mei laude iactasse.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Licet caelo proferre lucidos dies eosdemque tenebrosis noctibus condere.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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