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"ref": "c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:",
"text": "These banished men that I have kept withal / Are men endued with worthy qualities",
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"text": "This worthy mind should worthy things embrace.",
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"word": "արժանի"
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"sense": "having worth, merit, or value",
"word": "𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍃"
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"ref": "1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:",
"text": "that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.",
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"text": "[I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, […]",
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"ref": "1880, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature:",
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"ref": "1908, Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, The court of Russia in the nineteenth century:",
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"ref": "1910, Charles William Eliot, The Harvard classics: Beowulf:",
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