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"ref": "1915, Jack London, The Star Rover",
"text": "And there were household slaves in golden collars that burned of a plenty there with her, and nine female thralls, and eight male slaves of the Angles that were of gentle birth and battle-captured.",
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"sense": "one who is enslaved",
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"sense": "one who is enslaved",
"word": "essere schiavo"
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"sense": "one who is enslaved",
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one who is enslaved",
"word": "escravo"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nevolʹnik",
"sense": "one who is enslaved",
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"masculine"
],
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"masculine"
],
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"lang": "Swedish",
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"masculine"
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"text": "in thrall to",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1864, Herman Melville, Mardi",
"text": "Go: release him from the thrall of Hautia.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1911, Saki, The Easter Egg",
"text": "In her brain she was dimly conscious of balancing, or striving to balance, the abject shame which had him now in thrall against the one compelling act of courage which had flung him grandly and madly on to the point of danger.",
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"ref": "2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer",
"text": "A more enlightened Conservative prime minister, better attuned to the “one nation” tradition of the party of Disraeli and Macmillan, less in thrall to Little Englanders, and less intimidated by the peculiarly vicious and Manichaean worldview of the Daily Mail, would have taken a more consensual approach.",
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{
"ref": "2022 November 16, Paul Salveson, “Labour and transport: the important role of the regions”, in RAIL, number 970, page 31",
"text": "Labour needs to engage positively with the unions on wider policy issues, but not be in thrall with them.",
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"The state of being under the control of another person."
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"(uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person."
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"neuter"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "the state of being enslaved",
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"neuter"
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"word": "područí"
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"sense": "the state of being enslaved",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"sense": "the state of being enslaved",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Leibeigenschaft"
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"sense": "the state of being enslaved",
"word": "rabság"
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"ref": "1536, Thomas Wyatt, Satire I",
"text": "Rather than to live thrall, under the awe\nOf lordly lokes, wrapped within my cloke […]",
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},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*þrigilaz",
"t": "runner, gofer, servant"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*trāgʰ-",
"t": "to pull, drag, race, run"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽"
},
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},
{
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"t": "to run"
},
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"name": "cog"
}
],
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"comparative"
]
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"tags": [
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"categories": [
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"ref": "1536, Thomas Wyatt, Satire I",
"text": "Rather than to live thrall, under the awe\nOf lordly lokes, wrapped within my cloke […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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"UK"
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"US"
]
},
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"word": "thirl"
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{
"word": "thrallage"
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{
"word": "thirlage"
}
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"name": "cog"
}
],
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{
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"singular",
"third-person"
]
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"word": "enthrall"
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{
"word": "inthrall"
}
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],
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]
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"US"
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/En-au-thrall.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "thrall"
}
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"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
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{
"word": "thral"
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