due course
due course noun: regular or appropriate passage or occurrence.
Noun
due course (usually uncountable, plural due courses)
- Regular or appropriate passage or occurrence
- Let us be cleared / Of being tyrannous, since we so openly / Proceed in justice, which shall have due course, / Even to the guilt or the purgation.c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- This is all according to the due Course of Things: […]1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms)
due course meaning in Tamil
due course in Tamil
- உரிய காலம், நாளாவட்டம்
Examples of due course in a sentence
- The Reform Bill, although the Duke of Wellington described it as " a revolution by due course of law," set up in fact but a very limited suffrage, […]1898, Justin McCarthy, The Story of Gladstone's Life, page 27:
- You all know that in the due course of time / If you continue scratching on a stone, / Little by little some image thereon / Will he engraven.1985 [1387–1400], Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by David Wright, The Canterbury Tales, The Franklin's Tale:
Forms of due course
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Words formed from due course
Questions about due course
- What does due course mean?
- Due course means regular or appropriate passage or occurrence.
- What is due course in Tamil?
- Due course in Tamil is உரிய காலம், நாளாவட்டம். See Due course meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use due course in a sentence?
- The Reform Bill, although the Duke of Wellington described it as " a revolution by due course of law," set up in fact but a very limited suffrage, […]
- What part of speech is due course?
- Due course is a noun.
- What is the plural of due course?
- The plural of due course is due courses.
Words near due course in the dictionary
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