sine quâ non
See also: sinequanon and sine qua non
English
Noun
sine quâ non (plural sine quibus non)
- Alternative spelling of sine qua non. [from 18th c.]
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 275:
- Knowledge is the sine quâ non; but it is forgotten that moral is, to say the least, as useful as historical or scientific knowledge.
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