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status quo ante

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Etymology

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

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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