Duns
Proper noun
Meaning
Duns
A town in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Berwickshire (OS grid ref NT7853).
Phrases with the word
Examples
Duns Scotus (1300) and Durandus of Saint-Pourçain (1320) admit the term Filius adoptivus in a qualified sense.
Erasmus criticized him together with Duns Scot as fuelling unnessary controversies inside the Church in his Praise of Folly.
The main thrust of Duns' novel is an assassination plot against the prime minister, so if you're an action fan, you'll find plenty to your liking, but for my money, it's the true espionage details that kept me turning the pages of this remarkable novel."
So far in 2017 PATCH has funded specialist training for 12 hospital nurses from the Borders General Hospital as well as Kelso and Duns community hospitals.
However, after reading Duns Scotus in 1872, he saw that the two did not necessarily conflict.
Thus Heidegger's 1916 habilitation thesis, Die Kategorien- und Bedeutungslehre des Duns Scotus, should have been entitled, Die Kategorienlehre des Duns Scotus und die Bedeutungslehre des Thomas von Erfurt.