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},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "forgiveness given by a priest after confession",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Sündenvergebung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "forgiveness given by a priest after confession",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Absolution"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otpuščénije grexóv",
"sense": "forgiveness given by a priest after confession",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "отпуще́ние грехо́в"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "forgiveness given by a priest after confession",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "syndaförlåtelse"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Mental Floss",
"Pocket (service)"
],
"word": "shrift"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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