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qua | quab |

As an adverb qua

is as a; in the capacity of.

As a preposition qua

is in the capacity of.

As a noun quab is

an unfledged bird.

qua

English

Adverb

(-)
  • As a; in the capacity of.
  • * 1954 : , Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953 , dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
  • As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient.
  • * 1962 : ; Dreaming ; chapter nine: “Judgments in Sleep”, page 39{1}; chapter twelve: “The Concept of Dreaming”, page 68{2} (1977 paperback reprint; Routledge & Kegan Paul; ISBN 0?7100?3836?4 (c), 0?7100?8434?X (p))
  • {1} For sleep qua'' sleep has no experiential content: it cannot turn out, as remarked before, that a man was not asleep because he was ''not having some experience or other.
    {2} I am denying that a dream qua dream is a seeming, appearance or ‘semblance of reality’.
  • * 2003 : Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason , page 458 (Penguin, 2004)
  • It was qua poet that Byron resurrected the exploded and discarded immortal Christian soul by bodying it forth through the notion of soul conceived as poetic imagination.
  • * 2005 : Ulfelder, Jay.Collective Action and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes. International Political Science Review, 26(3), p318. Retrieved 1615 240810 from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au/stable/pdfplus/30039035.pdf?acceptTC=true.
  • "In essence, military regimes are autocracies in which the military qua organization performs many of the functions performed by the ruling party in single-party regimes."
  • * 2009 : Ken Levy, Killing, Letting Die, and the Case for Mildly Punishing Bad Samaritanism , Georgia Law Review, p. 24.
  • Blame qua attitude is the feeling or belief that an individual has committed a wrongdoing, usually a wrongful action and/or harm, and can be reasonably expected not to have committed this wrongdoing. Blame qua practice is the public expression of this attitude – usually by means of censure (written or verbal criticism) or punishment. Generally, the morally worse the wrongdoing, the more severe the censure/punishment.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • in the capacity of
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    quab

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unfledged bird.
  • (by extension) Something immature or unfinished.
  • (Ford)
    (Webster 1913)