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qua

[ kwey, kwah ]

adverb

  1. as; as being; in the character or capacity of:

    The work of art qua art can be judged by aesthetic criteria only.



qua

/ kwɑː; kweɪ /

preposition

  1. in the capacity of; by virtue of being
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of qua1

First recorded in 1640–50; from Latin quā, feminine ablative singular of the relative pronoun quī who
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Word History and Origins

Origin of qua1

C17: from Latin, ablative singular (feminine) of qui who
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Example Sentences

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.

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