in extremis
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in extremis
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Borrowed from Latin in extrēmīs.
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- At the point of death. 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. The purpose, of course, was to find out if the prisoner, in extremis, broke down and wrote to a family in Israel.
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prep_phrase at the point of death
| Português | in extremis |
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prep_phrase in desperate circumstances
| Português | in extremis |
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Talk about this word "in extremis." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/in%20extremis. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026. in extremis. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/in%20extremis "in extremis." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/in%20extremis.Cite this
@misc{in_extremis_2026,
title = {in extremis},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/in%20extremis},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}
