<Domine, non sum dignus>, used outside the Catholic ritual, has
often meant a kind of punctuation mark for the self-conscious
awareness of the speaker or writer that what s/he has just uttered
needs a kind of epithet meaning: <I said it but I'm really not that
cocky> or <I'm absolutely right on this, but I don't wish to boast>.
I do believe it is still so used by those who know Church Latin.
Ed Zimmermann
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