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conjunction
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Definition:In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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It is with Shelley's biographers qua biographers that we have to deal.
London Spectator.
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"[...] Oh, I know people get excited over sports qua sports, the competition and all that-"
Qua? The President couldn't believe it. Buster Roth was sitting here saying "sports qua sports"? He wondered if he'd planned it.
Tom Wolfe. I am Charlotte Simmons, p.517 (2004)
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Alexander Hamilton explained that “here, in strictness, the people … retain everything [and] have no need of particular reservations. ‘WE THE PEOPLE …, to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution.…’ Here is a [clear] recognition of popular rights.” By “popular rights” Publius meant rights of the people qua sovereign, including their right to revise what they had created.
Akhil Reed Amar. America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)
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Since, then, they do not annoy us by any expression of pain we call them emotionless; and so quâ mankind they are; but mankind is not everybody.
Samuel Butler. Erewhon
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