sansn.
/sanz/, U.S. /sænz/ Typography.
= sanserif n. (esp. as the proper name of particular typefaces).
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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > sans serif
sanserif1830
Doric1857
grotesque1875
sans1927
grot1961
1927 A. J. Watkins Advert. Lay-out & Copy-writing 116/2 Serifs,..not present on block letters or sans type.
1932 H. A. Maddox Printing (ed. 2) iii. 40 (caption) Sans-serif (Gill Sans in light, medium, and bold).
1959 ‘O. Mills’ Stairway to Murder ii. 16 Brash cardboard notices in harsh Sans letters.
1966 W. T. Berry & H. E. Poole Ann. Printing 208/1 Modern sans include Futura (1927), Cable (1927), [etc.].
1969 J. Wainwright Big Tickle 124 The double-column headline was in Sans Heavy Italic.
1978 Antiques & Art Monitor 28 Oct. 19/2 The result was a series of type-faces, ‘Perpetua’ and ‘Sans’, which remain some of the noblest and least fussy in the world.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
sansprep.
/sanz/, /sɒ̃/, U.S. /sænz/ 1. † b. With the exception of. [So in French.]
a. Without. Now archaic (chiefly with reminiscence of Shakespeare), jocular, and Heraldry.Before the time of Shakespeare used almost exclusively with nouns adopted from Old French, in collocations already formed in that language, as sans delay, sans doubt, sans fable, sans pity, sans return. Even in some of our earliest examples, however, a native English synonym has been substituted for the Romanic noun in the phrase, as in sans biding = sans delay.
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the world > space > place > absence > with absence of (a thing) [preposition]
withoutc1175
sansc1300
forouta1375
minus1808
α.
β. c1320 Gosp. Nicod. (Sion Coll. London MS.) 127 Saunz doute swa dide þai alle bydene.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 286 Religioun sanz reule and resonable obedience.a1400 Coer de L. 681 Go in, sans bydyng.c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2150 Tell on saunce delay.1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ix. xli. 407 Here came a knyght called sir Breuse saunce pyte.?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 238v Thou art sauns faulte the tyrant that I seke.1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. ii. vi. 168/1 It is a greefe vnto them though now sans remedie sith the thing is doone and past.1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 415 My loue to thee is sound, sance cracke or flaw. View more context for this quotation1610 Muses Gard. for Delights ii. ii. 3 My life thou may'st command saunce doubt.a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 166 Second childishnesse, and meere obliuion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans euery thing. View more context for this quotation1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 765 A man is compleat Armour in brasse, sans Helme.1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. vi. 210 If we step higher to trees sans date.a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 94 The Bears and Foxes, who sans question Than we by odds have warmer Vests on.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. xiii. 470 Some term this tower, Sans Port, or Gate.1764 T. Bridges Homer Travestie II. 214 Therefore, sans favour and affection, Take thou, my boy, thy own election.1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. (at cited word) A dragon or griffin, sans wings.1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. lvi. 208 Sans accident we arrived..and sans steamer..we were obliged to trust to our little tremulous craft.1883 R. F. Burton & V. F. Cameron To Gold Coast I. i. 13 A sailer-made-steamer, sans boats, sans gunwales.1901 G. B. Shaw Admirable Bashville iii. 324 And my blows unpaid, Sans stakes, sans victory, sans everything I had hoped to win.1922 L. Strachey Let. 6 Feb. in V. Woolf & L. Strachey (1956) 97 I am sans eyes, sans teeth, sans prick, sans..but after that there can be no more sanses.1929 Oxf. Poetry 45 Here, foundling and cheat, my Lord Parvenu suns His armorial lie, sans remorse and sans pother.1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 78 Sans rank, sans aircraft, sans everything to show off about, he'll be just a foolish little figure.1970 Nature 28 Feb. 781/2 The specimen, though sans its right hind paddle, is a fine example of Ichthyosaurus platyodon (Conybeare).1975 Publishers Weekly 18 Aug. 58/2 75 relevant illustrations sans razzle-dazzle.1977 Rolling Stone 30 June 68/1 It offers anxiety enough for the Rhodesians themselves,..to face the prospect of starting life afresh in some harsher, colder country, sans servants, sans swimming pool, sans sunshine, sans supremacy.1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) iii. i. 196 The result was a high-quality recording, sans commercials, which the adults and other families watched later at their leisure.c1300 K. Alis. 134 Of gold he made a table Al ful of steorren, saun fable.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2253 Þat mani man miȝt y se San schewe.
1375 Canticum de Creatione 62 in Anglia I. 304 Bote mete founde þeȝ non saun doute such as hy hadden byfore.
a1400 K. Alis. 600 He schal beo poisond, saun return Of his owne traitour.
a1400 Pistel of Swete Susan (MS. A) 181 Þe prestes saun pite, And ful of falshede.
c1425 Cast. Persev. 74 in Macro Pays 79 Þe vycys arn ful lyckely þe vertues to opresse saun dowte.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclusiveness [preposition] > except or excepting
savec1330
out-takenc1384
saving1386
other thana1425
savea1500
reserving1541
salvo1601
to set aside1610
abstracting from1614
save fora1616
sans1659
exclude1720
aside from1818
saufc1844
out-taking1848
secludinga1851
1659 J. Evelyn Let. 3 Sept. in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 119 All play interdicted, sans bowls, chess, &c.
2. In jocular nonce-wds.: sans-breech n. = sansculottid n. sans-potato n. an indigent Irishman.
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the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor Irishman
mantleman1633
mantlera1652
sans-potato1837
the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > specific months > [adjective] > of complementary days in
sans-breech1837
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. iv. 313 Our intercalary Days Sans-breeches.
1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 25 The Sanspotatoe is of the selfsame stuff as the superfinest Lord Lieutenant.
Compounds
Used in various French phrases and combinations (not naturalized) either in their original French use or in derived applications:† sans dener n. [see denier n.3] Obsolete a penniless person.† sans-punie n. Obsolete with impunity.
sans appel n. used substantively, a person from whom there is no appeal.
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1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! II. xi. 299 He had followed in full faith such a sans-appel as he held Frank to be.
sans blague n. you don't say! I don't believe it!.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [adverb] > expressing disbelief
really1753
never1855
sans blague1922
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 386 A drenching of that violence, he tells me, sans blague, has sent more than one luckless fellow in good earnest posthaste to another world.
1967 New Yorker 25 Feb. 39/1 Aristide..I happen to be only forty-four. Auto-coiffeur. Sans blague? I would have put you at twice that age.
sans cérémonie n. unceremoniously, without the usual ceremony or polite form; also attributive suitable for unceremonious occasions.
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the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adverb] > without ceremony
sans façon1672
sans cérémoniea1684
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [phrase] > without ceremony
sans façon1672
sans cérémoniea1684
without ceremony1709
the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adjective] > devoid of pomp or ceremony
ceremoniless1603
unpompous1656
pompless1745
sans cérémonie1807
sans façon1838
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 375 The burying place for the Common whores, where they are put into the ground sans ceremonie.
1773 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 27 Apr. The Sheriffs of Middlesex, sans cérémonie, summoned Wilkes, instead of Luttrell.
1807 Salmagundi 18 Apr. 153 The honest old comfortable sans ceremonie furniture is discarded.
1857 ‘C. Bede’ Mr. Verdant Green Married ii. 8 This evil..obliged neighbours to be hospitable to each other, sans cérémonie.
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the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > person lacking money
sans dener1469
empty pocket1834
stumer1898
skinner1943
1469 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 543 We pore sanz deners of Caster haue brook iij or iiij stelle bowys.
sans dire n. without saying anything, without mentioning (something specified).
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > taking for granted, presumption > [adverb]
presumptively1593
presumably1658
antecedently1668
high priori1742
presumedly1848
assumedly1881
sans dire1881
assumably1883
1881 A. Trollope Ayala's Angel II. xxviii. 68 You might as well let that accident pass, sans dire.
sans doute n. doubtless, no doubt.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > of course, certainly [phrase]
to iwissea1000
mid iwissea1000
in wisc1000
to wis(se)c1000
without(en (any) weenc1175
sans fail1297
thereof no strife1297
but werea1300
forouten werea1300
out of werea1300
without werea1300
without deceit1303
for certainc1320
it is to wittingc1320
withouten carec1320
without nayc1330
without noc1330
without (but out of) dread1340
no doubtc1380
without distancec1390
no fresea1400
out of doubta1400
without doubta1400
for, (in, at obs.), of, to (a) certaintyc1400
withouten stance14..
hazel woods shakea1413
of, on, in warrantisec1440
sure enough?1440
without question?1440
wythout diswerec1440
without any dispayrec1470
for (also of) a surety?a1475
in (also for) surenessa1475
of certainc1485
without any (also all) naya1500
out of question?1526
past question?1526
for sure1534
what else1540
beyond (also out of, past, without) (all) peradventure1542
to be a bidden by1549
out of (also without) all cry1565
with a witness1579
upon my word1591
no question1594
out of all suspicion1600
for a certain1608
without scruple1612
to be sure1615
that's pos1710
in course1722
beyond (all) question1817
(and) no mistake1818
no two ways about it (also that)1818
of course1823
bien entendu1844
yessiree1846
you bet you1857
make no mistake1876
acourse1883
sans doute1890
how are you?1918
you bet your bippy1968
1890 E. Dowson Let. 17 June (1967) 154 Sans doute you know your way by this time.
1918 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 11 Jan. (1977) 90 A pimp getting in [a train] to hold a seat for some super-pimp gave me such a blow in the chest that it is blue today. I thought: ‘This is Marseilles, sans doute.’
sans façon n. = sans cérémonie n.
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the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adverb] > without ceremony
sans façon1672
sans cérémoniea1684
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [phrase] > without ceremony
sans façon1672
sans cérémoniea1684
without ceremony1709
the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adjective] > devoid of pomp or ceremony
ceremoniless1603
unpompous1656
pompless1745
sans cérémonie1807
sans façon1838
1672 W. Perwich Despatches (1903) 224 His Maty replyed hee might doe it at that time sans façon.
1838 A. B. Granville Spas Germany 257 The simple, quiet, and sans façon manner in which this daily intercourse..took place.
1865 ‘Ouida’ Strathmore II. xxiii. 305 His usual sans façon, good~humoured style.
sans-gêne n. [gêne constraint] disregard of the ordinary forms of civility or politeness.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness
unmannerliness1550
misnurturednessa1578
misnurturenessa1599
incivility1603
perperitude1623
good (also bad) form1868
sans-gêne1893
mannerlessness1913
1893 E. Saltus Madam Sapphira 87 With the sans-gêne of a married man, Nevius dropped in a chair.
sans-pareil n. lit. not having its like, †(a) used substantively for a kind of perfume or smelling salts; (b) (as two words) unique, unequalled.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > especially or particularly [phrase] > incomparable or unique
without compare1621
of a lifetime1846
sans-pareil1962
1749 Lady Luxborough Let. 12 Dec. in Lett. to W. Shenstone (1775) 167 Methinks I smell the sans pareille hither.
1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting 55 Hastily take snuff, or smell to your sans-pareil.
1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide iii. v. 22 Eau de Chipre, Eau de Luce, Sans Pareil, and Citron Juice.
1962 John o' London's 20 Sept. 287/1 This conducted tour..must be quite sans pareil for..candour.
sans-pareilly adj. unexampled.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [adjective] > incomparable, unparalleled, or unique
unilicheOE
makelessc1225
unevenlyc1230
peerlessc1330
alonea1382
uncomparablea1382
unoverpassablea1382
solea1398
incomparable1412
sans-peer1426
nonpareilc1450
invincible1509
matchless1530
inimitable1531
unmatchable1544
unmatched1548
unpassable1563
alonely1567
inequivalent1568
mateless1570
unparagonized1578
only1581
fellowlessa1586
unimitablea1586
compareless1590
incompared1590
immatchless1595
unequalized1596
nonsuch1598
paragonless1599
immatchable1601
unparalleled1601
uncompeered1602
unpeered1602
imparalleled1604
unpeerable1604
unrivalled1607
uncompanioned1608
unexampled1610
unsurmountable1611
unsurpassable1611
unparagoned1612
patternless1613
unpatterned1617
unique1618
unparallelable1621
parallelless1622
unmatchless1623
single1633
unexemplifieda1634
unsampleda1638
unequalled1639
imparallel1641
unparallel1645
unseconded1646
unexemplary1649
unaccessional1651
unequalable1659
uncome-at-able1694
rivalless1735
untouched1735
unexcelleda1800
unexceeded1813
sans-pareilly1818
unsurpassed1818
unrivallable1823
unapproachable1834
untranscendeda1849
insuperable1849
unbrothered1853
unapproached1856
insurpassable1859
untouchable1867
hors concours1884
1818 J. Keats Wks. (1889) III. p. cxxxi An unpardonable offence, so sans pareilly.
sans peur n. without fear, fearless, often in (or with allusion to) the phrase sans peur et sans reproche, which was applied to the Chevalier de Bayard.
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the mind > emotion > courage > fearlessness > [adjective]
unfrighta1325
fearlessa1400
unafraid1423
unaghasta1510
unfearful1544
unafeard1568
unaffrighted1590
unterrified1595
unamazed1598
frightless1606
unfrighted1611
dauntlessa1616
undauntless1654
intremendous1659
unfrightened1675
unscared1743
unfearing1796
sans peur1812
well-plucked1824
unfrightful1837
impavid1857
tremorless1869
nerveless1959
1812 Amer. St. Papers For. Relat. (1832) III. 556 He told them that he had nothing to fear, that he was ‘sans peur et sans reproche’.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey V. vii. xiii. 192 The Knight, sans peur et sans reproche.
a1845 R. H. Barham Blasphemer's Warning in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 230 He had been sans reproche, as he still was sans peur.
sans phrase n. [after la mort sans, the alleged words of Sieyes in giving his vote for the death of Louis XVI] without more words, without circumlocution, without exceptions or qualifications.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > in full or to fullest extent > fully or without exceptions or qualifications
quite and cleana1175
for odd or evenc1425
the fullness of timec1425
in toto1798
sans phrase1808
hook, line, and sinker1838
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adverb] > in short
at a (also one) wordOE
at few wordsOE
shortly1303
in short wordsc1380
oncec1384
in short and plainc1386
in sum?a1425
at short wordsa1450
at short1513
briefly?1521
in a word1522
in one word1522
with a word1522
summa1535
to be short1544
in (the) fine1545
in few1550
summarily1567
in a sum1574
in shorta1577
in brief1609
briefa1616
in a little1623
tout court1747
sans phrase1808
in a nutshell1822
in nuce1854
1808 W. Scott Let. 23 Feb. (1932) II. 22 I hope you will remember how impatient I shall be to hear your opinion sans phrase.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 793/2 This study gives us the science of empirical psychology, or, as it is now termed, psychology sans phrase.
1919 D. Russell Let. Nov. in Tamarisk Tree (1975) v. 78 I got him to accept sans phrase for the moment.
1956 Ann. Reg. 1955 8 If they chose to expel him, he would become Independent sans phrase.
1961 J. B. Wilson Reason & Morals iii. 161 Thus we might say (almost sans phrase, as some early Christian authorities did) ‘sex is bad’.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Mar. 337/1 A. J. P. Taylor is the representative historian of our century... He is a historian sans phrase, not a man using history as the vehicle for other gifts.
sans prendre n. (see vole n.1).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > winning or losing points or tricks
trick1607
rub1613
slam1660
vole1680
sans prendre1728
grand slam1800
single1850
1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband v. iii. 93 Laying down a Vole, sans prendre.
1732 H. Fielding Mod. Husband i. 4 If it had not been for a cursed Sans-prendre-vole, that swept the whole Table.
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1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 138 His Proclamations..must bee either calumniated, or sans-punie transgressed.
sans recours n. [compare recourse n.1 4] Law ‘without recourse (to me)’, an endorsement on a bill of exchange absolving the endorser or any other party from liability as such party.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > a promissory note or bill of exchange > endorsement upon
sans recours1874
1874 J. B. Byles Pract. Treat. Law of Bills (ed. 11) v. 38 A safe and proper mode in which an agent may indorse, so as to avoid personal responsibility, is by adding the words, sans recours or without recourse to me.
1974 D. W. Fiddes Business Terms, Phr. & Abbrev. (ed. 14) 184 Sans recours is a phrase used in the endorsement of bills and notes. When an endorser wishes to free himself of responsibility, he adds the words Sans Recours, or Without recourse to me.
sans reproche n. without reproach, blameless (see sans peur n. above).
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society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > [adjective] > blameless
unfakenOE
lastlessc1225
unculpable1382
plightlessa1400
freelessc1400
unblamed14..
inculpablea1492
blameless1535
unblameful1570
witeless1578
inculpate1612
amomous1683
sans reprochea1845
a1845Sans reproche [see sans peur n.].
1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks III. i. 23 His conduct had been sans reproche.
sans souci n. lit. without care or concern; as n., unconcern; also, †a free-and-easy social gathering.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] > light-heartedness
lightnessa1350
light-heartedness1603
jauntiness1712
gaieté de cœur1728
sans souci1781
boyhood1829
sans-souci-ism1837
breeziness1885
gaydom1922
carefreeness1924
viscerotonia1980
happy-go-luckiness2008
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > informal
free and easy1761
sans souci1781
kitchen party1878
get-together1898
lime1956
1781 H. Walpole Lett. (1858) VIII. 65 Mrs. Hobart did not invite me to her sans souci last week, though she had all my other juvenile contemporaries.
1797 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 685/1 Their tout ensemble indicates health and delight, or at least an air of sans souci.
sans-souciant adj. rare carefree, unworried.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adjective] > light-hearted
lightOE
recklessc1400
lightsomea1425
light-hearted1440
free-hearted1549
unsolicitous1668
jaunty1672
carefree1795
light-heart1802
sans-souciant1826
buoyant-minded1833
cheero1915
viscerotonic1937
funsy1958
1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 10 Mar. (1939) 128 I have, in my odd sans souciant character, a good handful of meal from the grist of the Jolly Miller who—once Dwelld on the river Dee.
sans-souci-ism n. unconcern.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] > light-heartedness
lightnessa1350
light-heartedness1603
jauntiness1712
gaieté de cœur1728
sans souci1781
boyhood1829
sans-souci-ism1837
breeziness1885
gaydom1922
carefreeness1924
viscerotonia1980
happy-go-luckiness2008
1837 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 4 390 Buoyant with youth, wine, sans-souci-ism, and a holiday.
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