cui bono

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cui bo·no (kw

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Utility, advantage, or self-interest considered as the determinant of value or motivation.

[From Latin cui bon (est), for whom (it is) of advantage : cui, dative of qu, who + bon, dative of bonum, advantage.]

cui bono Latin [kwiː ˈbəʊnəʊ]

for whose benefit? for what purpose?

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Beckford, -- in all the crack novels, I say, from those of Bulwer and Dickens to those of Bulwer and Dickens to those of Turnapenny and Ainsworth, the two little Latin words cui bono are rendered "to what purpose?

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It was process of Evolution, I think, from Primal Necessity, but the fact remains in all the cui bono.

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