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"text": ", \"Concealment of Sin\"\na balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker"
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"(obsolete) An omission."
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"tags": [
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"ref": "1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:",
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"ref": "1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 303:",
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"text": "Well, / I know that none who enter there return / As they have enter'd—many never; but / They shall not balk my entrance.",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "kikerül"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "elhalad (mellette)"
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"word": "elmegy (mellette)"
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"word": "übergehen"
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{
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "kihagy"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "elsiklik"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "átsiklik"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "eltéveszt"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "elmulaszt"
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{
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"lang": "German",
"word": "vermeiden"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"word": "kihagy"
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{
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"word": "elszalaszt"
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{
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"word": "kivonja magát"
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{
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"roman": "preča",
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"word": "затруднявам"
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{
"code": "cs",
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{
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{
"code": "de",
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{
"code": "de",
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"word": "durchkreuzen"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "akadályoz"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"word": "gátol"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "hátráltat"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"word": "keresztülhúzza a számításait"
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{
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{
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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{
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{
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{
"code": "de",
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{
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{
"code": "hu",
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"word": "megbokrosodik"
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{
"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "vonakodik"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"word": "húzódozik"
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{
"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "hu",
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"word": "bokkol"
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{
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"word": "отказвам"
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"word": "vzepřít se"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"word": "tehdä tenä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"word": "kieltäytyä"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"word": "regimber"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"word": "sich sperren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"word": "zurückweisen"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "visszahőköl"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "visszariad"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"word": "visszaretten"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"word": "ustuknuti"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "csalódást kelt/okoz"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "kiábrándít"
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"sense": "to engage in contradiction; to be in opposition",
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],
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"word": "szembeszáll"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to engage in contradiction; to be in opposition",
"word": "elébe áll"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to engage in contradiction; to be in opposition",
"word": "keresztbe áll"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to engage in contradiction; to be in opposition",
"word": "ellenez"
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"To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring."
],
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"herring"
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}
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