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{ "etymology_text": "From Javert, a police inspector in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.", "forms": [ { "form": "more Javertian", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most Javertian", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "Javertian (comparative more Javertian, superlative most Javertian)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2005, Jack Shafer in Slate, For all Fitzgerald’s Javertian tendencies, I doubt if he wants to be remembered as the guy who jailed reporters from Time and the New York Times.:", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Of or pertaining to the relentless pursuit of a wrongdoer." ], "id": "en-Javertian-en-adj-t18Cm49y", "links": [ [ "relentless", "relentless" ], [ "pursuit", "pursuit" ], [ "wrongdoer", "wrongdoer" ] ], "translations": [ { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "of or pertaining to the relentless pursuit of a wrongdoer", "word": "javertiano" } ], "wikipedia": [ "Javert", "Les Misérables", "Victor Hugo" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ʒəˈvɛɹʃən/" } ], "word": "Javertian" }
{ "etymology_text": "From Javert, a police inspector in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.", "forms": [ { "form": "more Javertian", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most Javertian", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "Javertian (comparative more Javertian, superlative most Javertian)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English eponyms", "English lemmas", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned", "Terms with Portuguese translations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2005, Jack Shafer in Slate, For all Fitzgerald’s Javertian tendencies, I doubt if he wants to be remembered as the guy who jailed reporters from Time and the New York Times.:", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Of or pertaining to the relentless pursuit of a wrongdoer." ], "links": [ [ "relentless", "relentless" ], [ "pursuit", "pursuit" ], [ "wrongdoer", "wrongdoer" ] ], "wikipedia": [ "Javert", "Les Misérables", "Victor Hugo" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ʒəˈvɛɹʃən/" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "of or pertaining to the relentless pursuit of a wrongdoer", "word": "javertiano" } ], "word": "Javertian" }
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