"nimble-witted" meaning in All languages combined

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          "word": "nimble-wittedness"
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          "ref": "1581, Walter Haddon et al., translated by James Bell, Against Ierome Osorius Byshopp of Siluane in Portingall, London: John Daye, Book 3, p. 381b:",
          "text": "Forth rusheth Sathan by and by, and of a gnatte maketh more then an Elephant of India, and of a very litle geometriall point, draweth forth an infinite Sphere: so ingenious, & nimble witted is Dame Slaunder.",
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        {
          "ref": "1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 17, in Catriona, London: Thomas Nelson, pages 203–204:",
          "text": "The nimble-witted Miller had already smelt where I was travelling to, and made haste to get on the same road.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 23, in The Dain Curse:",
          "text": "Then Fitzstephan went to Whidden with an offer of a thousand dollars for Eric’s murder. Whidden refused at first, but he wasn’t nimble-witted, and Fitzstephan could be persuasive enough, so the bargain had been made.",
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        "Quick-witted."
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      "word": "nimble-wittedness"
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          "text": "Forth rusheth Sathan by and by, and of a gnatte maketh more then an Elephant of India, and of a very litle geometriall point, draweth forth an infinite Sphere: so ingenious, & nimble witted is Dame Slaunder.",
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          "ref": "1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 17, in Catriona, London: Thomas Nelson, pages 203–204:",
          "text": "The nimble-witted Miller had already smelt where I was travelling to, and made haste to get on the same road.",
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          "ref": "1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 23, in The Dain Curse:",
          "text": "Then Fitzstephan went to Whidden with an offer of a thousand dollars for Eric’s murder. Whidden refused at first, but he wasn’t nimble-witted, and Fitzstephan could be persuasive enough, so the bargain had been made.",
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