in extremis
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Etymology edit
Prepositional phrase edit
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'.
- In desperate circumstances.
- 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.
Translations edit
at the point of death
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in desperate circumstances
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin in extrēmīs (literally “in extremes”).
Adverb edit
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