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"2": "la",
"3": "encōmium",
"4": "",
"5": "praise, eulogy"
},
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},
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"4": "of or pertaining to the victor"
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"4": "festival, revel, ode"
},
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"etymology_text": "From Latin encōmium (“praise, eulogy”), from Ancient Greek ἐγκώμιον (enkṓmion, “laudatory ode, praise”), from ἐγκώμιος (enkṓmios, “of or pertaining to the victor”), from κῶμος (kômos, “festival, revel, ode”).",
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{
"ref": "1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, The History of Louisiana: Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries that Lye on both Sides of the River Missisipi [sic]: With an Account of the Settlements … Translated from the French … by M. Le Page du Pratz; with some Notes and Observations … In two volumes. …, London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, OCLC 181837275 (English translation of Histoire de la Louisiane : contenant la découverte de ce vaste pays, sa description géographique, un voyage dans les terres, l'histoire naturelle, les mœurs, coûtumes & religion des naturels, avec leurs origines : deux voyages dans le nord du nouveau Mexique, dont un jusqu'à la mer du Sud : ornée de deux cartes & de 40 planches en taille douce, Paris : Chez de Bure, l'aîné …, la veuve Delaguette …, Lambert …, 1758, OCLC 1651361), page 39",
"text": "I rejoined our people, and expected a reprimand for having forced the enemy without orders; though I had my excuse ready. But here I was mistaken; for I met with nothing but encomiums."
},
{
"ref": "1944 March and April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 89",
"text": "Many a new locomotive class has received encomiums in these columns because its early work was outstanding, judged by the then prevailing standards.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X",
"text": "I am, you will agree, mature, and in my earlier days I won no little praise for my skill at hunt-the-slipper. I remember one of the hostesses whose Christmas parties I attended comparing me to a juvenile bloodhound. An extravagant encomium, of course, but that is what she said.",
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},
{
"ref": "1962 June, “New Reading on Railways: The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, Part Nine: Two-Cylinder Classes. The Railway Correspondence & Travel Society, 12s.”, in Modern Railways, page 432",
"text": "This is the last part but one (No. 10, dealing with engines absorbed after 1922, is still to come) of the monumental R.C.T.S. history, which needs no further encomium for students of G.W.R. locomotive practice.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1991, Adrienne Laskier Martín, Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, page 141",
"text": "A more classical, adoxographic tone characterizes an encomium of the ass contained in Pero Mexía's 1547 Diálogos. In it the donkey is praised for its humility and integrity, as well as for its practicality: the she-ass's milk is recommended as both an antidote for poison and a skin cleanser, the animal is a good mount for soldiers, and even its meat is tasty.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2001, Phiroze Vasunia, The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, page 193",
"text": "As Philodemus indicated in antiquity, encomia of Busiris [by Isocrates] belong to this category of \"paradoxical\" or \"adoxographic\" treatises, which flourished in nearly all periods of ancient Greek literature. These were speeches written in the encomiastic style on subjects that were immediately recognizable to ancient audiences as vile, trivial, ridiculous, or otherwise unsuited to praise.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2014, Annette H. Tomarken, The Smile of Truth: The French Satirical Eulogy and Its Antecedents, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, pages 6–7",
"text": "[…] Polycrates' encomium on mice dwelt upon their service to the Egyptians in gnawing the bowstrings and shield handles of invading enemies, while Philostratus, praising hair, gave examples of long-haired heroes at Troy. Appion's praise of adultery recalls the love affairs of Zeus and other gods, and Libanus stresses the good parentage of Thersites, ugliest of the Greeks who fought against Troy. But for all their diversity of individual arguments, the overall pattern for these playful or \"adoxographic\" works remains that of the serious encomium, and their subject matter can conveniently be grouped under the three broad headings of vice, disease, and animals.",
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"roman": "vǎzhvala",
"sense": "tribute",
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"_dis1": "90 2 1 3 5",
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "tribute",
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"neuter"
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"word": "chvalořečení"
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"sense": "tribute",
"word": "kunnianosoitus"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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"sense": "tribute",
"word": "hróðr"
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"_dis1": "90 2 1 3 5",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
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"masculine"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "tribute",
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"_dis1": "90 2 1 3 5",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "panegírik",
"sense": "tribute",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "панеги́рик"
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"_dis1": "90 2 1 3 5",
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"lang": "Russian",
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"neuter"
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"Communication",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"(rhetoric) A general category of oratory."
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"_dis1": "3 86 1 4 5",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zànměi",
"sense": "category of oratory",
"word": "赞美"
},
{
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "category of oratory",
"word": "ylistyspuhe"
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"neuter"
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"neuter"
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"Communication",
"All topics",
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"A method within rhetorical pedagogy."
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"rhetorical",
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"(rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy."
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"The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series."
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"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Literature",
"orig": "en:Literature",
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"Culture",
"Entertainment",
"Writing",
"Society",
"Human behaviour",
"Language",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Communication",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
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"_dis": "16 10 2 30 42",
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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"A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue."
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"(literature) A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue."
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"media",
"publishing"
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"tags": [
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]
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"(obsolete) dictionary"
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"expansion": "→ Catalan: encomi",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Catalan: encomi"
},
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"1": "en",
"2": "encomium",
"bor": "1"
},
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],
"text": "→ English: encomium"
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"2": "encomium",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ French: encomium",
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],
"text": "→ French: encomium"
},
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"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "encomio",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: encomio",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: encomio"
},
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"2": "encômio",
"3": "encómio",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: encômio, encómio",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: encômio, encómio"
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"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "encomiu",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Romanian: encomiu",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Romanian: encomiu"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "encomio",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: encomio",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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{
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{
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"Praise, eulogy."
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"ref": "1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, The History of Louisiana: Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries that Lye on both Sides of the River Missisipi [sic]: With an Account of the Settlements … Translated from the French … by M. Le Page du Pratz; with some Notes and Observations … In two volumes. …, London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, OCLC 181837275 (English translation of Histoire de la Louisiane : contenant la découverte de ce vaste pays, sa description géographique, un voyage dans les terres, l'histoire naturelle, les mœurs, coûtumes & religion des naturels, avec leurs origines : deux voyages dans le nord du nouveau Mexique, dont un jusqu'à la mer du Sud : ornée de deux cartes & de 40 planches en taille douce, Paris : Chez de Bure, l'aîné …, la veuve Delaguette …, Lambert …, 1758, OCLC 1651361), page 39",
"text": "I rejoined our people, and expected a reprimand for having forced the enemy without orders; though I had my excuse ready. But here I was mistaken; for I met with nothing but encomiums."
},
{
"ref": "1944 March and April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 89",
"text": "Many a new locomotive class has received encomiums in these columns because its early work was outstanding, judged by the then prevailing standards.",
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{
"ref": "1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X",
"text": "I am, you will agree, mature, and in my earlier days I won no little praise for my skill at hunt-the-slipper. I remember one of the hostesses whose Christmas parties I attended comparing me to a juvenile bloodhound. An extravagant encomium, of course, but that is what she said.",
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{
"ref": "1962 June, “New Reading on Railways: The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, Part Nine: Two-Cylinder Classes. The Railway Correspondence & Travel Society, 12s.”, in Modern Railways, page 432",
"text": "This is the last part but one (No. 10, dealing with engines absorbed after 1922, is still to come) of the monumental R.C.T.S. history, which needs no further encomium for students of G.W.R. locomotive practice.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1991, Adrienne Laskier Martín, Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, page 141",
"text": "A more classical, adoxographic tone characterizes an encomium of the ass contained in Pero Mexía's 1547 Diálogos. In it the donkey is praised for its humility and integrity, as well as for its practicality: the she-ass's milk is recommended as both an antidote for poison and a skin cleanser, the animal is a good mount for soldiers, and even its meat is tasty.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Phiroze Vasunia, The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, page 193",
"text": "As Philodemus indicated in antiquity, encomia of Busiris [by Isocrates] belong to this category of \"paradoxical\" or \"adoxographic\" treatises, which flourished in nearly all periods of ancient Greek literature. These were speeches written in the encomiastic style on subjects that were immediately recognizable to ancient audiences as vile, trivial, ridiculous, or otherwise unsuited to praise.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Annette H. Tomarken, The Smile of Truth: The French Satirical Eulogy and Its Antecedents, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, pages 6–7",
"text": "[…] Polycrates' encomium on mice dwelt upon their service to the Egyptians in gnawing the bowstrings and shield handles of invading enemies, while Philostratus, praising hair, gave examples of long-haired heroes at Troy. Appion's praise of adultery recalls the love affairs of Zeus and other gods, and Libanus stresses the good parentage of Thersites, ugliest of the Greeks who fought against Troy. But for all their diversity of individual arguments, the overall pattern for these playful or \"adoxographic\" works remains that of the serious encomium, and their subject matter can conveniently be grouped under the three broad headings of vice, disease, and animals.",
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{
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"ipa": "/ɛŋˈkəʊ.mɪ.əm/",
"tags": [
"UK"
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},
{
"ipa": "/ɛnˈkoʊ.mɪ.əm/",
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},
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈkoʊ.mɪ.əm/",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎzhvala",
"sense": "tribute",
"tags": [
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],
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "tribute",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "chvalořečení"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "tribute",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chvalozpěv"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "tribute",
"word": "kunnianosoitus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "tribute",
"word": "ylistys"
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"sense": "tribute",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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},
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "enkṓmion",
"sense": "tribute",
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},
{
"code": "non",
"lang": "Old Norse",
"sense": "tribute",
"word": "hróðr"
},
{
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "tribute",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "encômio"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "tribute",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elogio"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "panegírik",
"sense": "tribute",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "панеги́рик"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vosxvalénije",
"sense": "tribute",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "восхвале́ние"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "tribute",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "encomio"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zànměi",
"sense": "category of oratory",
"word": "赞美"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "category of oratory",
"word": "ylistyspuhe"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "category of oratory",
"word": "encomium"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "egkómio",
"sense": "category of oratory",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "εγκώμιο"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "enkṓmion",
"sense": "category of oratory",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ἐγκώμιον"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vosxvalénije",
"sense": "category of oratory",
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],
"word": "восхвале́ние"
}
],
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"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French lemmas",
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"French nouns",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
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}
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"an Ancient Greek literary genre of praise"
],
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"2": "encomi",
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}
],
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},
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "encomium",
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],
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},
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"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "encomium",
"bor": "1"
},
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}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "encomio",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: encomio",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "encômio",
"3": "encómio",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: encômio, encómio",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: encômio, encómio"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "encomiu",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Romanian: encomiu",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Romanian: encomiu"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "encomio",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: encomio",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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}
],
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}
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"tags": [
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},
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"dative",
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},
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},
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},
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"ablative",
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