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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
Example sentences :
  • 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