ultima ration.

Brit.

/ˌʌltᵻmə ˈreɪʃɪəʊ/, U.S.

/ˌəltəmə ˈreɪʃ(i)oʊ/

Etymology: Latin.

Final sanction.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > [noun] > that to which one has recourse > last resort

last resorta1586

rendezvous1600

pis aller1676

ultima ratio1848

long-stop1949

1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. ii. ix. 375 The Irish cottier..protects himself by the ultima ratio of a defensive civil war.

a1902 S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) lxv. 292 There can be no doubt about faith and not reason being the ultima ratio.

1910 G. K. Chesterton George Bernard Shaw 26 The very logic of the Irishman makes him regard war or revolution as extra-logical, an ultima ratio which is beyond reason.

1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 June 436/4 The rod is still the ultima ratio of so many teachers.

1969 P. Anderson in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 226 The cultural limitations of bourgeois reason in England were thus politically rational: the ultima ratio of the economy founded both.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ultima ratio
释义	ultima ration. Brit. /ˌʌltᵻmə ˈreɪʃɪəʊ/, U.S. /ˌəltəmə ˈreɪʃ(i)oʊ/ Etymology: Latin. Final sanction. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > [noun] > that to which one has recourse > last resort last resorta1586 rendezvous1600 pis aller1676 ultima ratio1848 long-stop1949 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. ii. ix. 375 The Irish cottier..protects himself by the ultima ratio of a defensive civil war. a1902 S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) lxv. 292 There can be no doubt about faith and not reason being the ultima ratio. 1910 G. K. Chesterton George Bernard Shaw 26 The very logic of the Irishman makes him regard war or revolution as extra-logical, an ultima ratio which is beyond reason. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 June 436/4 The rod is still the ultima ratio of so many teachers. 1969 P. Anderson in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 226 The cultural limitations of bourgeois reason in England were thus politically rational: the ultima ratio of the economy founded both. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1848
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