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Jove
[ johv ]
Jove
/ dʒəʊv /
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of Jove1
Idioms and Phrases
- by Jove! (an exclamation used to emphasize an accompanying remark or to express surprise, approval, etc.):
It was a good fight, by Jove!
Example Sentences
At this point, a normal, fair-minded human being would think, "Well, by jove, we've got to get out there and equal them."
There are the best and the worst—all who can pay the price: the reformers cheek by jowl with the mayor and the Boss, by Jove!
But I don't believe he cared particularly whether his spoon was silver or pewter, by Jove!
Like an angry Jove, he hurls the thunderbolts of his fury and blasts with the lightning of his power.
One can get amongst set after set of fellows, and into plenty of inane fashionable drawing-rooms; but, bai Jove!
But there is a singular survival and continuity of the ancient practice: men still swear by Jove.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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