status quo ante

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Etymology

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From the Latin stātus quō ante (the way things were before), possibly from stātus quō ante bellum (the way things were before the war).

Noun

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status quo ante (plural status quo antes)

  1. The state of things as they were before; a preexisting state of affairs.
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