hoc genus omnephr.
/hɒk ˈɡɛnəs ˈɒmniː/ phr.
Usually in et (occasionally and) hoc genus omne: and the whole of that class or group; and all that kind of thing (often as ornamental substitute for et cetera).
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1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 9 Mar. (1932) (modernized text) III. 1118 All the shops, drolls, tumblers, rope-dancers, and hoc genus omne.
1834 C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1874) III. xxiii. 95 He saw Newcastle, Winchelsea, Wetherell, and hoc genus omne as much the objects of idolatry as himself.
1867 D. G. Rossetti Let. 23 Oct. (1965) II. 641 When razzias occur on the part of organ-grinders, brass bands, et hoc genus omne.
1937 G. B. Shaw London Music 1888–89 94 Handfuls of earls, a dean..half-a-dozen members of Parliament, et hoc genus omne.
1953 Ess. in Crit. 3 2 The Herbert Warrens and the Sidney Lees, et hoc genus omne.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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