See truckle on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:",
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"ref": "1899, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, in War and Other Essays, Yale, published 1911, page 302:",
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"ref": "1687, John Norris, A Collection of Miscellanies, consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters:",
"text": "Religion it self is forced to truckle to worldly policy.",
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"sense": "to act submissively",
"word": "сервилнича"
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"english": "The car is overturned.",
"ref": "Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867",
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