absque

absque is a Latin form of ab, meaning “from, away from; by (agent) (+abl.)”. It is the preposition.

Found 72 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.19.1: … ior quam tu. sed ad summas atque incredibilis occupationes meas accedit quod nullam a me volo epistulam ad te absque argumento ac sententia pervenire. et primum tibi, ut aequum est civi amanti patriam, quae sint in re publica …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.2.7: Absque praeiudicio, inquit Taurus, tu interea sede, dum inspicimus quaerimusquequaerimlusque utrum conveniat, tene potius sedere, qui pater es, an filium, qui magistratus est.

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.