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‖ simpliciter, adv. orig. chiefly in Sc. Law.|sɪmˈplɪsɪtə(r)|
[L., adv. from simplic-, simplex simple.]
Simply, absolutely, unconditionally; without any condition or consideration.
1545Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 8 The keping of the said place sall cease simpliciter. 1570Foxe A. & M. 1243/1, I sayd, yt seing they had ben simpliciter giuen to me, I would neuer thanke him for them. 1603Reg. Privy Council Scot. VI. 547 To..ressave him to his Majesteis peax, and gif to him or ony in his name the wand thairof simpliciter in tyme cuming. 1664Butler Hud. ii. i. 185 This thing call'd Pain, Is..Not bad simpliciter, nor good, But merely as 'tis understood. 1765–8Erskine Inst. Law Scot. iv. iii. §22 Suspending the letters of diligence on which the charge was given, simpliciter. 1884Law Rep. 27 Chanc. Div. 210 The outlay upon Cardiff Docks is not simpliciter a question between tenant for life and remainderman. 1929A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality 69 The Aristotelian phrase suggests the crude notion that one actual entity is added to another simpliciter. 1936C. S. Lewis Allegory of Love v. 222 He [sc. Gower] says too much, not at this point or that, but too much simpliciter. 1963Times 28 May 9/2 Substantial damages were not awarded..for physical injury simpliciter, but only for the pain and suffering and general loss of happiness which it occasioned. 1970N. & Q. Dec. 453/1, I know of no evidence that ‘shambles’ simpliciter was ever used for ‘brothel’. 1977G. W. H. Lampe God as Spirit vii. 178 It may suggest that the community which the Spirit creates is to be identified simpliciter with the institutional Church. |