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loci

/ˈloʊsaɪ/

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What does loci mean?

noun

  1. Alternative form of locie (“locomotive”).
  2. plural of locus

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/ˈloʊsaɪ/

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/ˈloʊkaɪ/
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Gloom, the genius loci at all times hitherto, was now totally overthrown, less by the lantern light than by what the lantern lighted.
Thomas HardyFar from the Madding CrowdProject Gutenberg ebook #27
“Abducendus etiam nonnunquam animus est ad alia studia, sollicitudines, curas, negotia: loci denique mutatione, tanquam aegroti non convalescentes, saepe curandus est.”
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600
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Mr. Youatt, qui diu in Hortis Zoologicis (Bestiariis) medicus animalium erat, vir in rebus observandis cautus et sagax, hoc mihi certissime probavit, et curatores ejusdem loci et alii e ministris confirmaverunt.
Charles DarwinThe Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to SexProject Gutenberg ebook #2300
To get there and live there, to move among the churches and halls and become imbued with the genius loci, had seemed to his dreaming youth, as the spot shaped its charms to him from its halo on the horizon, the obvious and ideal thing to do.
Thomas HardyJude the ObscureProject Gutenberg ebook #153
But it is at least problematical, whether an unjust sentence against a foreigner, where the subject of controversy was wholly relative to the lex loci, would not, if unredressed, be an aggression upon his sovereign, as well as one which violated the stipulations of a treaty or the general law of nations.
Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James MadisonThe Federalist PapersProject Gutenberg ebook #18