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"ref": "1574, Iohn Caluine, translated by Thomas Norton, The Institution of Christian Religion, London: […] [T]he widowe of Reginalde Wolffe, title page and Table page",
"text": "VVritten in Latine by M.Iohn Caluine, and tranſlated into Engliſ he according to the authors laſt edition, By thomas norton. […] And the redemptor ſ hall come to Sion,and vnto thẽ that turne frõ their vvickednes in Iacob.",
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"ref": "1595, William Perkins, A Golden Chaine, or The Description Oe Theologie, page 16",
"text": "God is not onely a bare permiſsiue agent in an euill worke, but a powerfull effectour of the ſame[…]",
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"ref": "1640, The Proceedings of the Commissioners Sent from the Parliament of Scotland to the King, page 52",
"text": "The Lord Commiſsioner ſheweth, that it is his Majeſties will that the Parliament be prorogated to the 2. of June, and that by his Majeſties authority only: of the prorogation, the prætenſion is pag. 30.",
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"ref": "1669, An Embassy from the East-India Company on the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China, pages 20–21",
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"ref": "1702, Francisco de Quevedo-Villegas, translated by Roger Lestrange, The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo-Villegas. Knight of the Order of S James., London: […] B. Harris, page 1",
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"ref": "1767, Henry Fielding, The Works of Henry Fielding: In Twelve Volumes, with the Life of the Author, volume 3, page 273",
"text": "Dor. I have been told, noble Squire, that you once impos’d a certain lady for Dulcinea on your maſter; now what think you if this young lady here ſhould perſonate that incomparable princeſs? / Jez. Who, I? / San. Adod! your princeſsſhip has hit it; for he has never ſeen this Dulcinea, nor has any body elſe, that I can hear of;",
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"ref": "1783, Joseph Ritson, Remarks, Critical and Illustrative, on the Text and Notes of the Last Edition of Shakspeare, page 223",
"text": "But he does not ſtab him for his treachery toward hisſelf […]",
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"ref": "1785, Vicesimus Knox, Liberal Education: Or, a Practical Treatiſe on the Methods of Acquiring Uſeful and Polite Learning, vol. II, pp. 1 & 3, section XXXI: On the regulation of puerile diverſions",
"roman": "Thoſe of the effeminate kind ſuperinduce effeminacy; weakneſs of mind, no leſs than imbecility of body. Something ſimilar happens in puerile diverſions. The boy who has been kept in leading-ſtrings too long, and reſtrained from hardy ſports by the fondneſs of his mother, will ſcarcely ever become a man; or poſſeſs that becoming ſpirit which can enable him to act his part with propriety.",
"text": "Many fanciful methods have been invented by thoſe who wiſhed to render puerile ſports conducive to improvement. I never found that they were ſucceſsful.\nI muſt own myſelf an advocate for puerile liberty*, during the alloted hours of relaxation. Boys have much reſtraint and confinement in the time of ſtudy."
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"ref": "1796, John Hatsell, Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons: With Observations, page 102",
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"ref": "1892, Richard Le Gallienne, English Poems, London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at The Bodley Head; New York: The Cassell Publishing Company, […], page [iii]",
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"ref": "2018, “Do you deem it to be ſenſible to bring back the long ‘s’?”, in Quora, archived from the original on 2023-06-06",
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"ref": "1908 [1870], Aleksis Kivi, chapter 1, in Seitsemän veljestä, Helsinki: Yrjö Weilin",
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"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
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"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "I"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "K"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "N"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "O"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "P"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "p"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "Q"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "q"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "R"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "r"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "S"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "T"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "U"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "u"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "V"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "v"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "W"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "X"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "Y"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "Z"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter"
],
"word": "z"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"Latin script characters",
"Translingual entries with incorrect language header",
"Translingual lemmas",
"Translingual letters",
"Translingual terms with archaic senses",
"Translingual terms with obsolete senses",
"Translingual terms with redundant script codes"
],
"glosses": [
"The long s, a form of the letter ess (S)."
],
"links": [
[
"long s",
"long s"
],
[
"ess",
"ess"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete or archaic) The long s, a form of the letter ess (S)."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"letter",
"obsolete"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Long s"
]
}
],
"word": "ſ"
}
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