in extremis

English

in extremis

At the point of death.
- 2018 December 13, Edmund Richardson, Classics in Extremis: The Edges of Classical Reception, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 116:
  Military records describing the deaths of men as a result of injuries sustained during combat employed the phrase in a (now near-obsolete) sense to describe a man on the verge of dying: […] 'He was in extremis when seen and died about 2 hours after the action ceased at 9 pm'.
(by extension) In desperate circumstances.
- 2001 [1990], Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 410:
  The purpose, of course, was to find out if the prisoner, in extremis, broke down and wrote to a family in Israel.
- 2011, Michael Lavalette, Vasilios Ioakimidis, Social Work in Extremis: Lessons for Social Work Internationally, Policy Press, →ISBN, page 1:
  This book sets out to look at what we have termed 'social work in extremis'. It is an attempt to bring together a number of case studies that look at social work responses in 'extreme' or crisis situations.
- 2016 February 9, Christopher Holshek, Travels with Harley: Journeys in Search of Personal and National Identity, Inkshares, →ISBN:
  There was a reason we would call up the Reserves only in extremis.

at the point of death

in desperate circumstances

Unadapted borrowing from Latin in extrēmīs (literally “in extremes”).

in extremis

in extremis
- 2020 September 27, Federico Rampini, “Stati Uniti, affondi, invettive, colpi da ko: così Trump e Biden preparano il duello tv che vale l'elezione [United States, attacks, invective, knockout blows: this is how Trump and Biden are preparing the TV duel that is worth the election]”, in la Repubblica‎^[1]:
  È comunque il presidente in carica che deve fare una rimonta in extremis.
  However, it is the president in office who must make a comeback in extremis.
at the last moment