An indispensable condition. Latin, Sine qua non potest esʹse or fieri (that without which [the thing] cannot be, or be done).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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