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"ref": "1890 December 9, Thomas H. Huxley, “Letter to the \"Times\" on the \"Darkest England Scheme\"”, in Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays",
"text": "Sadly behind the great age of rowdy self-advertisement in which their lot has fallen, they seem not to have advanced one whit beyond John the Baptist and the Apostles, 1800 years ago, in their notions of the way in which the metanoia, the change of mind of the ill-doer, is to be brought about.",
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"ref": "1917, Countee Cullen, Incident",
"text": "Now I was eight and very small, / And he was no whit bigger / And so I smiled, but he poked out / His tongue, and called me, 'Nigger.'",
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"ref": "1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893",
"text": "In conclusion, I would remark that the great railway stations of London deserve to be visited every whit as much as St. Paul's Cathedral, the Abbey, or the Tower, and they are as worthy a memento of this century as those buildings are of the days that are gone.",
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{
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{
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{
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"ref": "1890 December 9, Thomas H. Huxley, “Letter to the \"Times\" on the \"Darkest England Scheme\"”, in Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays",
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{
"ref": "1917, Countee Cullen, Incident",
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"ref": "1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893",
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{
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{
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{
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{
"word": "modicum"
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{
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"word": "незначително количество"
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],
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{
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "smallest part imaginable",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "smallest part imaginable",
"word": "hiukkanen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "smallest part imaginable",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "once"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "smallest part imaginable",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jóta",
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"feminine"
],
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},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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],
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}
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],
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"glosses": [
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{
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{
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"heraldry",
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[
"silver",
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[
"argent",
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],
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"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"monarchy",
"nobility",
"politics"
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},
{
"categories": [
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"Inducing the transmutation of a substance into silver"
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[
"alchemy",
"alchemy"
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[
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"transmutation"
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[
"silver",
"silver"
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],
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],
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"alchemy",
"pseudoscience"
]
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{
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],
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],
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[
"medicine",
"medicine"
]
],
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"(medicine) Unusually light; bearing the pallor of death"
],
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"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
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"word": "whyte"
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"word": "whitt"
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{
"word": "whytt"
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{
"word": "whyt"
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{
"word": "whiȝt"
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{
"word": "qwyght"
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{
"word": "ȝwijt"
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{
"word": "wyghte"
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{
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"Middle English nouns",
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"Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
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"Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation"
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"6": "white"
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}
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"g3": "",
"id": "",
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{
"word": "hor"
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{
"word": "blak"
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"word": "asure"
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{
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{
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{
"word": "blo"
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"word": "pers"
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{
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{
"word": "rose"
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{
"word": "murrey"
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[
"white",
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[
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]
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"word": "what"
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"word": "Whithele"
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"name": "inh"
}
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"form": "whiter",
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],
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"Yola terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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"english": "Thou never eatedst spiced bread, white palskes, (or) bride-cake.",
"ref": "1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 100",
"text": "Thou ne'er eighthest buskès, whit palskès, breede-kaake.",
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}
],
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"white"
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"ipa": "/wiːt/"
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"homophone": "waaight"
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"homophone": "waaite"
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{
"homophone": "weate"
},
{
"homophone": "whet"
},
{
"homophone": "wiethe"
}
],
"word": "whit"
}
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