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Definition of En masse
1. Adverb. All together. "The students turned out en masse"
Definition of En masse
1. Adverb. in a single body or group; together ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of En Masse
Literary usage of En masse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of International Law by Thomas Joseph Lawrence (1910)
"2 §197 We have next to consider the subject of Levies en masse. ... A good example
is to be found in the French levy en masse of 1793, which filled the ..."
2. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"Or again, sometimes a levy en masse takes place spontaneously, without organisation
by a belligerent, and the question arises whether, or not, ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"13 13 13 13 13 lied. Times and Gaz. Oct. 28, 1854. 6* 41. Operations in Cases of
Hernia when the Sac and its Contents had been reduced en masse. ..."
4. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1866)
"expedient, it is true, to raise the population en masse, and to interrupt production
and even the labours necessary for nutrition : but it was ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1904)
"The levée-en-masse [1793 To the ... of the provincial Communes, who were il Paris
for the fête, demanded a levée- en-masse of the people of France. ..."
6. The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of by Frank Maloy Anderson (1904)
"DECREE FOR LEVY en masse ^3 Of the Relations of the French Republic with Foreign
Nations. 118. ... Decree for the Levy en Masse. August 23, 1793. ..."
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