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},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to condescend",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "raczyć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to condescend",
"word": "dignar-se a"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "snizojtí",
"sense": "to condescend",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "снизойти́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "soblagovolítʹ",
"sense": "to condescend",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "соблаговоли́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "soizvólitʹ",
"sense": "to condescend",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "соизво́лить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "udostóitʹ",
"sense": "to condescend",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "удосто́ить"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to condescend",
"word": "udostojiti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to condescend",
"word": "dignarse"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to condescend to give",
"word": "suoda"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to esteem worthy",
"word": "arvostaa"
}
],
"word": "deign"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": aɣirsa vs. ɣirsad čatvala",
"path": [
"deign"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "deign",
"trace": ""
}
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