ex vi terminiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

成句

ex vi termini

1. by definition
   • 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, page 116:

     Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people—less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their own character.

   • 1906, Edmund Burke, quotee, edited by William Jennings Bryan, The World's Famous Orations, volume 6: Ireland, page 28:

     The claim of a privilege seems rather, ex vi termini, to imply a superior power...

   • 2025 August 4, Honcques Laus, Ceremonial mistakes in My Oxford Year‎, Cherwell:

     A college ball is, ex vi termini, a college matter and should surely take place in the college.