See posture on Wiktionary
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"text": "As if that whatsoever god who leads him\n Were slily crept into his human powers,\n And gave him graceful posture.",
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"text": "1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan\n...that is, their Forts, Garrisons, and Guns upon the Frontiers of their Kingdomes; and continuall Spyes upon their neighbours; which is a posture of War."
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"text": "1912, G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men\nBut it is not true, no sane person can call it true, that man as a whole in his general attitude towards the world, in his posture towards death or green fields, towards the weather or the baby, will be wise to cultivate dissatisfaction."
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to put one's body into a posture or series of postures",
"word": "atteggiarsi"
}
],
"word": "posture"
}
{
"categories": [
"French 2-syllable words",
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French feminine nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French nouns",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "postură",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Romanian: postură",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Romanian: postură"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tr",
"2": "postür",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Turkish: postür",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Turkish: postür"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "postures",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "posture f (plural postures)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"posture, attitude"
],
"links": [
[
"posture",
"posture#English"
],
[
"attitude",
"attitude"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"conduct, comportment"
],
"links": [
[
"conduct",
"conduct"
],
[
"comportment",
"comportment"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɔs.tyʁ/"
}
],
"word": "posture"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "noun form",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "posture f",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian non-lemma forms",
"Italian noun forms",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "postura"
}
],
"glosses": [
"plural of postura"
],
"links": [
[
"postura",
"postura#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "posture"
}
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