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 Translation for 'on pain of death' from English to French
dr.
sous peine de mort {adv}
on pain of death
Partial Matches
relig.
sous peine d'excommunication {adv}
on pain of excommunication
(en) être à la dernière extrémitéto be on the point of death
méd.
gestion {m} de la douleur
management of pain
méd.
perception {f} de la douleur
perception of pain
méd.
cri {m} de douleur
cry of pain
méd.
seuil {m} de tolérance à la douleur
threshold of pain
méd.
seuil {m} de la douleur
threshold of pain
relig.
sous peine d'excommunication {adv}
under pain of excommunication
souffrir d'être incompristo suffer the pain of being misunderstood
filmF
Mort sur le Nil
Death on the Nile [John Guillermin (1978); Kenneth Branagh (2022)]
méd.
être dur à la fatigue
to be able to stand a lot of pain
anat.méd.
douleurs {f.pl} lombaires
pain {sg} in the small of the back
heure {f} du décèstime of death
voile {f} de mortpall of death
dr.
arrêt {m} de mort
sentence of death
danger {m} de mortrisk of death
danse {f} macabredance of death
psych.
angoisse {f} de la mort
fear of death
annonce {f} nécrologiqueannouncement of death
dr.méd.
cause {f} du décès
cause of death
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Usage Examples English
  • Rome itself was protected by a goddess whose name was to be kept ritually secret on pain of death (for a supposed case, see Quintus Valerius Soranus).
  • While they were ultimately given more time for the Great Ship to arrive, Hideyoshi proceeded to ban Christian symbols and ordered Japanese Christians to recant on pain of death.
  • The society has its secret signs and rituals, and festivals which were in past times closed to strangers on pain of death. Duk-Duk only appeared with the full moon.
  • Paulus told Midnighter that he had replaced Midnighter's secondary heart with a remote-detonated bomb, and challenged him on pain of death to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
  • King Creon, who has ascended to the throne of Thebes after the death of the brothers, decrees that Polynices is not to be buried or even mourned, on pain of death by stoning.

  • When Dobrynya arrived at Kiev, Prince Vladimir commanded him to rescue his niece, on pain of death.
  • As soon as they arrive, a public rumor announces that the Dejazmach Wube , governor of Tigray, the first region they must cross, has massacred a Protestant mission and prohibited its territory to any European, on pain of death.
  • Because of the lack of grain, Snow forbade making strong drink from grain and ordered abstinence from drinking alcohol on pain of death.
  • Recognizable by their yellow tlahuiztli, they had sworn not to take a step backward during a battle on pain of death at the hands of their comrades.
  • He was condemned to perpetual exile on pain of death, and died at Naples on 9 January 1598.

  • Civilians who buy their protection or make other deals are expected to be discreet, on pain of death.
  • Kaan sends Kas'im to bring Bane back to Ruusan to join the Brotherhood on pain of death.
  • In "the Apology", Socrates explained that he would not obey a hypothetical court verdict that forced him to renounce public philosophizing on pain of death, for such a demand would be an injustice to him.
  • miles of the city on pain of death. Severus replaced the old guard with 10 new cohorts recruited from veterans of his Danubian legions.
  • The properties and incomes of the condemned were declared forfeit and they were exiled from Denmark on pain of death.

  • According to Crick, the ideologically driven leader practises a form of anti-politics in which the goal is the mobilisation of the populace towards a common end—even on pain of death.
  • Antiochus forbids both circumcision and possession of Jewish scriptures on pain of death.
  • Rhea Silvia was made a Vestal Virgin by Amulius rendering her unable to have children on pain of death; however, according to myth she was forcibly impregnated by the god Mars.
  • Burton's best-known achievements include: a well-documented journey to Mecca in disguise, at a time when non-Muslims were forbidden access on pain of death; an unexpurgated translation of "One Thousand and One Nights" (commonly called "The Arabian Nights" in English after early translations of Antoine Galland's French version); the publication of the "Kama Sutra" in English; a translation of "The Perfumed Garden", the "Arab "Kama Sutra"; and a journey with John Hanning Speke as the first Europeans to visit the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile.
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