Definition of "passim" [pas•sim]

• Throughout or frequently; here and there. Used in textual annotation to indicate that something, such as a word or passage, occurs frequently in the work cited. (adverb)

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• "Michael StewartNewtownabbey, County Antrim• I know we don't have major earthquakes Reports, passim, but I remember being panic-stricken circa 1957 in Nottingham sitting in French lessons when the statues of Our Lady and the Sacred Heart wobbled alarmingly and Sister Mary ordered us to vacate the classroom saying Hail Marys as we ran."
• "On fort construction and vermin, see Clary, These Relics, passim, and especially ch."
• "(Ibid., p. 27, et passim); (5) the reversion to animal state is seen in his abandonment, one by one, of the accoutrements of civilization: the rifle, pack, gold."