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passus
[ pas-uhs ]
noun
plural passus, passuses.
- a section or division of a story, poem, etc.; canto.
passus
/ ˈæə /
noun
- (esp in medieval literature) a division or section of a poem, story, etc
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Origin of passus1
C16: from Latin: step, pace 1
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Most people falling in love with, say, Dido’s Lament by Henry Purcell – apparently the UK’s favourite aria – are unlikely to be getting their kicks from spotting that passus duriusculus; it’s probably not being able to identify the tierce de Picardie at the end of Dvorák’s New World Symphony that makes it endure.
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Skeat, B, passus V, ll. 153-65.
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Propter alteram quid non passus?
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Patricius prædicabat Scotis Passus multos labores in Latio Ut venirent in die judicii Quos convertit ad vitam æternam.
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Maledicat illos Maledicat illum Dei Filius qui pro homine passus est.
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