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‖ acte gratuit|akt gratwi|
[Fr. (A. Gide).]
A gratuitous or inconsequent action performed on impulse.
1933‘Rebecca West’ St. Augustine iii. 40 It was simply a demonstration against order..; in fact, it was an acte gratuit of the sort that fills M. André Gide with such ecstasy. 1949‘N. Blake’ Head of Traveller i. i. 25 I'm an Artist. I should only be interested in murder as an acte gratuit. 1950W. H. Auden Enchafèd Flood (1951) iii. 96 His criminal acte gratuit of shooting the Albatross. |