icelui
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]icelui m (feminine icelle, masculine plural iceux, feminine plural icelles)
- (now only in law or humorous, obsolete) this one
- Synonym: celui-ci
- 1759, Voltaire, chapter 1, in Candide:
- Comment Candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d’icelui.
- How Candide was raised in a beautiful castle, and how he was driven from such.
Further reading
[edit]- “icelui”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.