nisi

Example Sentences

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His children cried, last August, when he announced he would be leaving, when he filed the paperwork to complete his decree nisi, and that was enough to persuade him to stay.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021

And that's only the beginning of what the nil nisi bonum faithful evaded.

From Salon • May 8, 2021

And it replaces the terms "decree nisi" and "decree absolute" with "conditional order" and "final order".

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2020

In the early 3rd century, biographer Diogenes Laërtius attributed the phrase “do not speak ill of the dead” to philosopher Chilon of Sparta, later popularized in Latin as De mortuis nihil nisi bonum.

From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2018

‘Animum rege, qui nisi paret, imperat,” quoth the poet Horace.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson