Meaning & use
passim
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Used in citations and scholarly writing to indicate that a reference or theme occurs throughout a text, rather than at one specific point.
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The footnote cited "see Smith, passim" to indicate the idea recurred throughout the book.
References to the theory appear passim in the author's later essays.
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Borrowed directly from Latin, "passim" literally means "here and there" and is still standard in academic citation style.
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