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"ref": "2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 4, in Moneyland, Profile Books, page 65",
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"ref": "a. 1686, Earl of Roscommon [i.e., Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon], Samuel Johnson, “The Sixth Ode of the Third Book of Horace”, in The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, […], volumes X (The Poems of Rochester, Roscommon, and Yalden), London: […] E. Cox; for C. Bathurst, […], published 1779, page 257, →OCLC",
"text": "Time ſenſibly all things impairs; / Our fathers have been worſe than theirs; / And we than ours; next age will ſee / A race more profligate than we / (With all the pains we take) have ſkill enough to be.",
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"word": "անառակ"
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"tags": [
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],
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "overly wasteful or extravagant individual",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
],
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}
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}
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"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
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{
"form": "profligates",
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"singular",
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{
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"ref": "1840, Alexander Walker, Woman Physiologically Considered as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial Slavery, Infidelity and Divorce, page 157",
"text": "Such a stipulation would remove one powerful temptation to profligate pennyless seducers, of whom there are too many prowling in the higher circles ;",
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}
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]
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"(obsolete) To drive away; to overcome."
],
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}
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{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹɒflɪɡət/",
"tags": [
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"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹɑːflɪɡət/",
"tags": [
"US",
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"noun"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹɒflɪɡeɪt/",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹɑːflɪɡeɪt/",
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},
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"enpr": "prŏʹflĭgət",
"tags": [
"verb"
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{
"enpr": "prŏʹflĭgāt",
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]
}
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