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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
latter/ˈlatə(r)/

▶adjective

1 occurring nearer to the end of something than to the beginning.
■ recent: in latter years.

2 (the latter) denoting the second or second-mentioned of two people or things.

– origin OE lætra ‘slower’, compar. of læt (see late).

'latter' also found in these Oxford entries:

Alt key - baker - crop - diary - engine - ergative - hysteron proteron - Inuit - Jacobin - latter-day - Latter-Day Saints - LDS - minuscule - Mormon - saint - umbrage

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...latter of whom.
'provided' the latter were intelligent men (conjunction)
"former and latter" in this particular case?
"Latter"
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"the latter"
ascribe themselves to the latter
Czech pre-exile experience and the latter European one
Former / Latter - used same time?
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in the later or latter part
it were men as the latter
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meaning of as and the latter
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pronunciation: latter
referring to smith previously mentioned with 'the latter'
Revolution is different from reformation in that the first is involved in violences while the latter doesn't.
The exact meaning of the latter "it"
the former and the latter vs the formers and the latters
the former, the latter when to refer to three or more nouns
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