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"text": "In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation.",
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"ref": "2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)",
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"ref": "2021 May 6, Charles M. Blow, “Liz Cheney, We Have a Memory. You’re No Hero.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "Liz Cheney and her father are positioning themselves as protectors of the old order, as paragons of truth and as defenders of our American norms.",
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"ref": "2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany's fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, page 22",
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"(obsolete) A companion; a match; an equal."
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"(obsolete) Comparison; competition."
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{
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{
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{
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{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "pl-decl-noun-m-in",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "paragon",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "paragony",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "paragonu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "paragonów",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "paragonowi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "paragonom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "paragon",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "paragony",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "paragonem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "paragonami",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "paragonie",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "paragonach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "paragonie",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "paragony",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m-in"
},
"expansion": "paragon m inan",
"name": "pl-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"pa‧ra‧gon"
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "pl-decl-noun-m-in"
}
],
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Polish 3-syllable words",
"Polish entries with incorrect language header",
"Polish genericized trademarks",
"Polish inanimate nouns",
"Polish lemmas",
"Polish links with manual fragments",
"Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
"Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
"Polish masculine nouns",
"Polish nouns",
"Polish terms derived from Byzantine Greek",
"Polish terms derived from Italian",
"Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Polish terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:Polish/aɡɔn",
"Rhymes:Polish/aɡɔn/3 syllables"
],
"glosses": [
"receipt (written acknowledgement that a specified article or sum of money has been received)"
],
"links": [
[
"receipt",
"receipt"
]
],
"tags": [
"inanimate",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/paˈra.ɡɔn/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɡɔn"
}
],
"word": "paragon"
}
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