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"ref": "c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:",
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"ref": "2018, Edo Konrad, “Living in the constant shadow of settler violence”, in +972 Magazine:",
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"text": "1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne and Son and T. Cadell, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 3, p. 41,\n[…] the assailants of the quill have their honour as much at heart as the assailants of the sword."
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
"word": "hyökkääjä"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
"word": "päällekarkaaja"
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
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"word": "assalitore"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
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"alt": "かがいしゃ",
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"word": "加害者"
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"code": "ko",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
"word": "kaiuruhi"
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"code": "no",
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
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"code": "nb",
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
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"word": "angriper"
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
"word": "napastnik"
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
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"masculine"
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"word": "agressor"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "napadájuščij",
"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
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"word": "напада́ющий"
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"word": "napadalec"
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"word": "napadalka"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
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"word": "asaltante"
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
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"word": "atacante"
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "an attacker; someone who attacks another violently, or criminally",
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"ref": "1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, line 1687 to 1696:",
"text": "But he though blind of sight, / Despis'd, and thought extinguish'd quite, / With inward eyes illuminated, / His fiery virtue roused / From under ashes into sudden flame, / And as an evening dragon came, / Assailant on the perched roosts / And nests in order ranged / Of tame villatic fowl, but as an eagle / His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads.",
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