Definitions
as; in the role of
Word origin
From Latin quā (“in the capacity of”).
Used in a sentence
“Qua work of art, the work of art cannot be interpreted; there is nothing to interpret; we can only criticize it according to standards, in comparison to other works of art; […]”
“It was qua poet that Byron resurrected the exploded and discarded immortal Christian soul by bodying it forth through the notion of soul conceived as poetic imagination.”
“Sometimes, though, you pick up a novel and it makes your skin prickle — not necessarily because it’s a great novel qua novel, which you can’t know until the end, but because of the velocity of its microperceptions.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“In the capacity of”3 letters
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