finis

Etymology

From Middle English finis, from Latin fīnis (“end; limit”). Doublet of fine.

noun

  1. The end (of a book or other work).
    He had gone through the work from the title-page to the finis at least forty times, and had just commenced it over again. 1836, Frederick Marryat, Mr Midshipman Easy
    Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious 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 […] , Episode 16

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