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"ref": "1923, Arthur Michael Samuel, “Roubiliac (1695-1762)”, in The Mancroft essays, page 159",
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"ref": "1980, Joel Flegler, Fanfare, volume 3, numbers 4-6, page 198",
"text": "That's all well and good; one can sit, agape, reading the copious liner notes to this or any Explorer record, but it's what's inside the jacket that counts.",
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"ref": "1996, Lech J. Majewski with Julian Schnabel, Basquiat",
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"ref": "1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow",
"text": "He tries not to tear his victim's stockings, or whip too close to her stretched vulva, which shivers, unprotected, between thighs agape and straining, amid movements of muscle erotic, subdued, “monumental” as any silver memory of her body on film.",
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"ref": "1995 September 24, “Stop Me If Yov've Heard this One”, in Washington Post",
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"ref": "1996 August 2, “Johnson can fly, and he does it without wings”, in Chicago Sun-Times",
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"ref": "2004, Jeffrey C. Carrier, John A. Musick, Michael R. Heithaus, Biology of Sharks and their Relatives, page 171",
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"ref": "2023 August 7, Suzanne Wrack, “England beat Nigeria on penalties to reach Women’s World Cup quarter-finals”, in The Guardian",
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"ref": "1996, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Invasion of Privacy, page 508",
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"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
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"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-agape3.wav",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
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"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-agape4.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/54/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-agape4.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-agape4.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "ə-gäʹpā"
},
{
"enpr": "ăgʹä-pā'"
},
{
"enpr": "ăgʹə-pē"
},
{
"enpr": "ăgʹə-pā'"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cop",
"lang": "Coptic",
"roman": "agapē",
"sense": "(Christianity) love of God for mankind; benevolent love for others",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ⲁⲅⲁⲡⲏ"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(Christianity) love of God for mankind; benevolent love for others",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Agape"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "agápi",
"sense": "(Christianity) love of God for mankind; benevolent love for others",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "αγάπη"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "agápē",
"sense": "(Christianity) love of God for mankind; benevolent love for others",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ἀγάπη"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "(Christianity) love of God for mankind; benevolent love for others",
"word": "agapo"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(Christianity) love of God for mankind; benevolent love for others",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "agapa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(Christianity) love of God for mankind; benevolent love for others",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "agape"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(Christianity) love of God for mankind; benevolent love for others",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "agape"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "agapa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "agape"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ágape"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ljubóvʹ k blížnemu",
"sense": "spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "любо́вь к бли́жнему"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "love feast",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Agape"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "love feast",
"word": "agapé"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "love feast",
"word": "szeretetlakoma"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "love feast",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "agapa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "love feast",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "agape"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "love feast",
"word": "ágape"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"agape"
],
"word": "agape"
}
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