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Definition of the day : « raison d'être »
- As in justification : noun reason, excuse
- As in rationale : noun logic for belief, action
- As in function : noun capacity, job
- The raison d'etre therefore for the book is convenience and arrangement.
- Extract from : « A Field Book of the Stars » by William Tyler Olcott
- Of course the raison d'etre of being here is the sulphur spring.
- Extract from : « Their Pilgrimage » by Charles Dudley Warner
- The raison d'etre of marriage is human happiness now and in the generations to follow.
- Extract from : « Race Improvement : or, Eugenics : a Little Book on a Great Subject » by La Reine Helen Baker
- The discussion of this proposal seems to make plain the raison d'etre for the existence of the Sentinel.
- Extract from : « The Day of the Confederacy » by Nathaniel W. Stephenson
- Moreover, we have the raison d'etre of the ghost: she had been a victim of the Chief Justice in Eyre.
- Extract from : « The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories » by Andrew Lang
- The question was sufficiently important to demand an experimental solution; hence the raison d'etre of the present demonstration.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 » by Various
- So my reader will perhaps understand the raison d'etre of the proverb, "The lawyers own England."
- Extract from : « Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison » by Austin Biron Bidwell