arbitraire
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin arbitrārius.
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Adjective
arbitraire (plural arbitraires)
- arbitrary (determined by impulse)
- 1864, Rudolf Charles, Preface to Testament by Jean Meslier, page 13
- Un acte arbitraire, réprouvé par l’ensemble des membres me paraît avoir éveillé ce désir de vengeance qui tua pour des années tout sentiment sympathique pour nous dans la poitrine de l’homme en question.
- An arbitrary act, condemned by all members, seems to me to have awakened this desire for revenge which for years killed all sympathetic feelings for us in the breast of the man in question.
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- 1864, Rudolf Charles, Preface to Testament by Jean Meslier, page 13
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Further reading
- “arbitraire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.