non serviam

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A formal refusal to serve. uncountable
    — Two months later he issued his notorious non serviam, “A Soldier's Declaration.” He expected to be court-martialed for this, but his friend Robert Graves managed to arrange that he face a medical board instead.

词源

From Latin non serviam (“to will not serve”), used in the Vulgate to translate Hebrew לֹא אעבוד.
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