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| Concept: | Certainty. |
| Category: | Degrees of Evidence |
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cela va sans dire; there is no question, not a shadow of doubt; the die is cast (necessity); " facts are stubborn things [Smollett].
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| Antonyms: | uncertainty |
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| Concept: | End. |
| Category: | 2. CONSECUTIVE ORDER |
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"as high as Heaven and as deep as hell" [Beaumont & Fletcher]; deficit omne quod nascitur [Quintilian]; en toute chose il faut considerer la fin; finem respice; ultimus
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| Antonyms: | beginning |
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| Concept: | Eventuality. |
| Category: | 2. COMPLEX CHANGE; Present Events |
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that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles; you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring; the plot thickens; "breasts the blows of circumstance" [Tennyson]; "so runs round of life from hour to hour" [Tennyson] "sprinkled along the waste of years"
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| Concept: | Importance. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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expende Hannibalem! [Juvenal].
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| Antonyms: | unimportance |
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| Concept: | Influence. |
| Category: | 4. Indirect Power |
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tel maure tel valet.
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| Antonyms: | absence of influence |
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