sua sponte

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sua sponte

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A borrowing of Latin sua sponte (“at its own prompting; by its own impulse; of its own free will”)

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Without prompting or suggestion; on its own initiative. Decretals... ought, properly speaking, to be distinguished, on the one hand from constitutions... enacted by the Pope sua sponte without reference to any particular case, and on the other hand from rescripts... which apply only to special circumstances or individuals, and constitute no general prece
Similar: suo motu, nostra sponte, motu proprio

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"sua sponte." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sua%20sponte. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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sua sponte. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sua%20sponte

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"sua sponte." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sua%20sponte.

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@misc{sua_sponte_2026,
  title = {sua sponte},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sua%20sponte},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}