"rakeshame" meaning in All languages combined

See rakeshame on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: rakeshames [plural]
Etymology: Compare rakehell, ragabash. Head templates: {{en-noun}} rakeshame (plural rakeshames)
  1. (obsolete) An objectionable person. Tags: obsolete

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Compare rakehell, ragabash.",
  "forms": [
    {
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            [
              348,
              358
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1641, John Milton, Of Reformation of Church-Discipline in England, Book II:",
          "text": "[…] if such divine ministeries as these, wherein the angel of the church represents the person of Christ Jesus, must lie prostitute to sordid fees, and not pass to and fro between our Saviour, that of free grace redeemed us, and the submissive penitent, without the truckage of perishing coin, and the butcherly execution of tormentors, rooks, and rakeshames sold to lucre ; then have the Babylonish merchants of souls just excuse.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An objectionable person."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) An objectionable person."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rakeshame"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Compare rakehell, ragabash.",
  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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              348,
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          "ref": "1641, John Milton, Of Reformation of Church-Discipline in England, Book II:",
          "text": "[…] if such divine ministeries as these, wherein the angel of the church represents the person of Christ Jesus, must lie prostitute to sordid fees, and not pass to and fro between our Saviour, that of free grace redeemed us, and the submissive penitent, without the truckage of perishing coin, and the butcherly execution of tormentors, rooks, and rakeshames sold to lucre ; then have the Babylonish merchants of souls just excuse.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "An objectionable person."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) An objectionable person."
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}

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