"finis" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English finis, from Latin fīnis (“end; limit”). Doublet of fin, fine, and finish.",
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          "ref": "1836, [Frederick Marryat], “In which our hero finds out that trigonometry is not only necessary to navigation, but may be required in settling affairs of honour”, in Mr. Midshipman Easy […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, page 32:",
          "text": "He had gone through the work from the title-page to the finis at least forty times, and had just commenced it over again.",
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          "text": "Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious that, but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour, the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward, […]",
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        "Of a book or other work: the end."
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      "ipa": "/ˈfɪnɪs/"
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  "word": "finis"
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