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Definition of Status quo
1. Noun. The existing state of affairs.
Definition of Status quo
1. Noun. The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Status Quo
Literary usage of Status quo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1912)
"For the parties do not bind themselves to pursue a policy for maintaining the
status quo, they only declare their firm resolution to that end. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Lord Napier, now British Minister, proposed three alternatives: a mutual abandonment
of the treaty and return to the status quo ante; submission of the ..."
3. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"... the status quo by the party seeking rescission. If this is true in cases where
the other party is actively in fault, it must, a fortiori, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Lord Napier, now British Minister, proposed three alternatives : a mutual
abandonment of the treaty and return to the status quo ante; submission of the ..."
5. United States in the World War by John Bach McMaster (1918)
"His Holiness had in substance proposed a return to the status quo ante helium,
with condonation, disarmament, a concert of nations, freedom of the seas, ..."
6. The Second Partition of Poland: A Study in Diplomatic History by Robert Howard Lord (1915)
"... modifications of the status quo in its favor, Prussia reserved the right to
claim equivalent advantages. The Powers of the Triple Alliance promised ..."
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