Word: infidelium
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...would be unwise to push this fact too far. Except in France, where political philosophies tended to turn inward, most political movements of the past 150 years have been highly exogamous, often finding in partibus infidelium new ideas with which to mate. For many years, liberals have been in favor of expanding and improving social security; would it make sense to refer to them as "Junker liberals" merely because the first social security system was instituted in the regime of Otto von Bismarck...
Speaking as the Kremlin's apostolic legate in partibus infidelium, Togliatti summed up: "We know that there exists in Russia a regime of religious freedom...
...every nationality say joyfully: "I am going home," they do not mean to their native lands, they mean to Moscow. Thence, if Moscow has not purged them for their sins (and by conversion, they unreservedly admit its right to do so), it will send them forth again in partes infidelium, with renewed clarity of purpose, on their implacable Marxist mission...
...indifference which the undergraduate wears so proudly on his shoulder, we have always noted with keen delight how the fair name of Harvard is treasured "in partibus infidelium," and in the desolate, barren, exotic, tropical, and sandy wastes of the world. We have just heard of one of these noble sentiments which arose from a controversy in Alexandria, Virginia...
John H. Clarke, League missionary in partibus infidelium...