causans

His hatred of his father was the causa causans of the whole case; he had pushed Oscar into the fight and Oscar, still intent on shielding him, declared that he had asked him to go abroad.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

(“First Expedition,” chapter xx.) believes the causa causans to be the sand swept over the southern part of the island:

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

"_Dio mio_, the _causa causans_!" cried he, and let them in through a cranny.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

Slavery, therefore, was the cause, the _causa causans_, and whilst we should use all wise and _constitutional_ means to secure its gradual disappearance, yet we should act justly, remembering how, when, and under what flag slavery was forced upon the protesting and opposing South, then feeble colonies of England.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

_Tablet_ of those who signed the address to Persico on the totally wrong assumption that he and his report were the _causa causans_ of the decree.

Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael F. J. McDonnell

His hatred of his father was the causa causans of the whole case; he had pushed Oscar into the fight and Oscar, still intent on shielding him, declared that he had asked him to go abroad.

Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916

His hatred of his father was the "causa causans" of the whole case; he had pushed Oscar into the fight and Oscar, still intent on shielding him, declared that he had asked him to go abroad.

Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions Harris, Frank 1910

European instruction; and this again is the _causa causans_ of the great wave of progress in scientific and philosophical knowledge which is rolling over the whole country and will have marked effects on the history of the world during the coming century.

Myths and Legends of China 1909

Ninety-nine poets and dramatists out of a hundred would have followed Plutarch and made Cleopatra's love for Antony the mainspring of her being, the causa causans of her self-murder.

The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

Both causes no doubt worked together, and yet another cause, given in “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” was the real causa causans.

The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909