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Example sentences for "common parlance"

  • Thus we see that each and every condition of the phenomenon may be taken in its turn, and, with equal propriety in common parlance, but with equal impropriety in scientific discourse, may be spoken of as if it were the entire cause.

  • And this is the meaning of explanation, in common parlance.

  • These various uniformities, when ascertained by what is regarded as a sufficient induction, we call in common parlance, Laws of Nature.

  • This term literally implies one quarter of the ship, but in common parlance applies to 45° abaft the beam.

  • In common parlance, it is the point of the compass upon which the ship sails, the direction in which she proceeds, or is intended to go.

  • In common parlance, the terms nation and people have become strictly synonymous.

  • These various uniformities, when ascertained by what is regarded as a sufficient induction, we call, in common parlance, Laws of Nature.

  • The African slave trade has become such a mere technic, in common parlance, that the fact of its being proper slavery is overlooked.

  • It now signifies, in common parlance, not one who possesses unlimited power over others, but one who exercises the power that he has, whether little or much, cruelly.

  • According to one of the forms, the sensations which, in common parlance, we are said to receive from objects, are not only all that we can possibly know of the objects, but are all that we have any ground for believing to exist.

  • It has, in common parlance, several shades of signification.

  • We perceive now that our original conception of life and the terms we use respecting it, in common parlance, are but ill-adapted to this subject when philosophically considered.

  • The distinction is, however, not very rigidly observed in common parlance.

  • Chierico' of course means a cleric, but in common parlance it is reserved for the boy who, though lay, wears a clerical dress for the time he is serving mass, or attending to the church generally.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    borne along; claim upon; common among; common denominator; common enough; common government; common ground; common justice; common level; common noun; common plan; common progenitor; common resident; common roads; common school; common schools; common soldier; common source; common thing; commonly believed; commonly called; feet above the lake; getting home; known fact; moral purpose; whatever thou