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in fine
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Definition:in conclusion; by way of termination or summing up.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Everything in him irritated her now; his face, his dress, what he did not say, his whole person, his existence, in fine.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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It was against your highness; whereat griev'd, —
That so his sickness, age, and impotence
Was falsely borne in hand, — sends out arrests
On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys;
Receives rebuke from Norway; and, in fine,
Makes vow before his uncle never more
To give th' assay of arms against your majesty.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
(the term is thrice used in Hamlet)
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In fine, lieutenant Lismahago is a curiosity which I have not yet sufficiently perused; and therefore I shall be sorry when we lose his company, though, God knows, there is nothing very amiable in his manner or disposition.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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We landed, in fine, more dead than alive, after four days of intense distress, upon the beach opposite Roanoke Island.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Oblong Box (1844)
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both natality and mortality, as well as all other phenomena of evolution, tidal movements, lunar phases, blood temperatures, diseases in general, everything, in fine, in nature’s vast workshop from the extinction of some remote sun to the blossoming of one of the countless flowers which beautify our public parks is subject to a law of numeration as yet unascertained.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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