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"ref": "1922, Rafael Sabatini, “chapter XXV”, in Captain Blood: His Odyssy",
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"ref": "2010, Helene J. Sinnreich, “The Rape of Jewish Women during the Holocaust”, in Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust, page 108",
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"ref": "2011, C. Dallett Hemphill, “chapter 3”, in Siblings: Brothers and Sisters in American History",
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"ref": "2014, Michael Naas, edited by Zeynep Direk and Leonard Lawlor, A Companion to Derrida, page 236",
"text": "But I would now like to argue that there was for Derrida a privileged site in Ancient Philosophy for this question, one to which Derrida would repeatedly return in his writing and thinking – Socrates’ denigration or denunciation of writing, his attempt in the Phaedrus to exclude writing from thinking and philosophy proper. As I suggested at the outset, this claim regarding Derrida’s relation to the Greeks is one that Derrida himself would have been reticent to accept.",
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"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "reticentului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "reticentei",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"feminine",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "reticenților",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "reticentelor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"feminine",
"genitive",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "reticent m or n (feminine singular reticentă, masculine plural reticenți, feminine and neuter plural reticente)",
"name": "ro-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "ro-decl-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Romanian adjectives",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French"
],
"glosses": [
"reluctant"
],
"links": [
[
"reluctant",
"reluctant"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "reticent"
}
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