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},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Tenshi Shukushi",
"sense": "prayer",
"word": "天使祝詞"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"english": "Abe Maria",
"lang": "Korean",
"sense": "prayer",
"word": "아베 마리아"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Seongmo Gido",
"sense": "prayer",
"word": "성모 기도"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Seongmosong",
"sense": "prayer",
"word": "성모송"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "prayer",
"word": "Ave Maria"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "prayer",
"word": "Failt yn Ainle"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "prayer",
"word": "Zdrowaś Mario"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "prayer",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"informal"
],
"word": "zdrowaśka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "prayer",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ave-maria"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Áve Maríja",
"sense": "prayer",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "А́ве Мари́я"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "prayer",
"word": "Fàilte Mhoire"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "prayer",
"word": "avemaría"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "prayer",
"word": "Aba Ginoong Maria"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "prayer",
"word": "Kinh Kính Mừng"
}
],
"word": "Hail Mary"
}
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"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
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"English verbs",
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"3": "Heil Marie"
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"expansion": "Middle English Heil Marie",
"name": "inh"
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],
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{
"form": "Hail Marys",
"tags": [
"present",
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},
{
"form": "Hail Marying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
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},
{
"form": "Hail Maryed",
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{
"form": "Hail Maryed",
"tags": [
"past"
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}
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"name": "en-verb"
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"pos": "verb",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2003, Ray Cranley, Chip Chop Cherry, page 120",
"text": "He Hail Maryed himself to sleep every night and woke up Hail Marying in the morning, and to his amazement and delight it worked.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Pamela DuMond, The Assassin",
"text": "Sister Cecilia Hail Maryed herself and slid back in the room.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Gregory Phillip Jones, 51 Years of Bipolar Disease: A Survivor's Story, page 168",
"text": "I can just imagine a medical examiner standing beside my corpse, pulling the sheet back so as to expose my head and torso, and explaining to a detective, “This poor man Hail Maryed himself to death!”",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"To pray by saying a Hail Mary."
],
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"(often reflexive) To pray by saying a Hail Mary."
],
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}
],
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}
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