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qua

/kwey, kwah/US // kweɪ, kwɑ //UK // (kweɪ, kwɑː) //

魁北克,夸,夸父,夸奖

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : as; as being; in the character or capacity of: The work of art qua art can be judged by aesthetic criteria only.

Examples

  • For a post to rank on Google, it is well understood that thoroughness is a sine qua non.

  • Responding with alarm, they seek to buttress the idea of Jewish ethnicity qua Jewish peoplehood.

  • I suppose I plead guilty to that, but I would say that it's not the form qua form that I suspect I will object to about ZDT.

  • That accumulation of identities is already a sine qua non when speaking of Hispanics, like Zimmerman.

  • In the land of the industrial revolution, foreign ownership and management is the sine qua non of industrial success.

  • This unsmoked, wet-cured ham is the sine qua non of Parisian butcher shops: a light, ephemeral meat, sweet but umami.

  • It teaches you to take your time, or as the Germans call it, it gives you "Ruhe (repose)," the grand sine qua non!

  • Solemnior ea processio fuit, qua sanctissimum Sacramentum festo ipsi die cumtulimus.

  • Civitas opulenta, dives, fecunda, in qua nemo vivat otiosus.

  • I could never be induced to take the faintest interest in Brompton qua Brompton or a drawing-room qua a drawing-room.

  • Masochismus Larvatus est species hujus degenerationis in qua sordes physicae sordibus adduntur moralibus.