See paragon on Wiktionary
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"english": "The New Arcadia",
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"ref": "1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:",
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{
"ref": "a. 1786, [Richard Glover], “Book the Twenty-seventh”, in [Mrs. Halsey], editor, The Athenaid, a Poem, […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], published 1787, →OCLC, page 192, lines 539–543:",
"text": "In arms anon to paragon the morn, / The morn new-riſing, whoſe vermillion hand / Draws from the bright'ning front of heav'n ſerene / The humid curtains of tempeſtuous night, / Mardonius mounts his courſer.",
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"ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:",
"text": "He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description and wild fame.",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sravnjavam",
"sense": "to compare",
"word": "сравнявам"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to compare",
"word": "把…同…相比"
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"sense": "to compare",
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"sense": "to compare",
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},
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to compare",
"word": "vergleichen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to compare",
"word": "mithalten"
},
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to compare",
"word": "ebenbürtig sein"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to compare",
"word": "die Stirn bieten"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to compare",
"word": "paragonare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to compare with",
"word": "paragonare"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to serve as a model for",
"word": "olla esikuvana"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to serve as a model for",
"word": "parangonner"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to serve as a model for",
"word": "Vorbild sein"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to serve as a model for",
"word": "vorausgehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to serve as a model for",
"word": "modellhaft sein"
},
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to serve as a model for",
"word": "örnek olmak"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to serve as a model for",
"word": "örneklemek"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ravnjavam se",
"sense": "to be equal",
"word": "равнявам се"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be equal",
"word": "gleichauf sein"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be equal",
"word": "vergleichbar sein"
}
],
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}
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"expansion": "Genericized trademark",
"name": "gentrade"
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"name": "der"
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{
"form": "paragonie",
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},
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"Polish nouns",
"Polish terms derived from Byzantine Greek",
"Polish terms derived from Italian",
"Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Polish terms with audio links",
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