Definition of "solum" []

• The upper layers of a soil profile in which topsoil formation occurs. (noun)

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• "Now, it is a peculiarity of our German language, whenever a statement is made regarding two things, one of which is affirmed while the other is negatived, to add the word solum, 'alone,' to the word 'not' or 'none.'"
• ""I knew full well," he says, "that in the Latin and Greek texts of Rom. 3, 28 the word solum"
• "Non solum sed etiam, the term “pirate” is simply puerile when real pirates are operating out of the coast of somalia, for how can the designation be shared between two entirely unrelated activities?"