non serviam

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Two months later he issued his notorious non serviam, “A Soldier's Declaration.” He expected to be court-martialed for this, but his friend Robert Graves managed to arrange that he face a medical board instead."
"In her memoirs, she wrote that she heard him speak, but his words floated away from her; it was as if her brain, already choked by the day's horrors, had issued a non serviam and refused to absorb any more."

From Latin non serviam (“I will not serve”), used in the Vulgate to translate Hebrew לֹא אעבוד.

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