See cant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 60:",
"text": "Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world,—though the cant of hypocrites may be the worſt,—the cant of criticiſm is the moſt tormenting!",
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"ref": "1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 46, in The Way of All Flesh:",
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"ref": "2004 October 14, Leslie Feinberg, “Anti-gay terror in Nazi Germany”, in Workers World:",
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"_dis1": "98 2 0 0",
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"word": "кантовать"
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"word": "окантвам"
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"word": "viistää"
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"lang": "Dutch",
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"masculine"
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"feminine"
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"code": "de",
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{
"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "hu",
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"lang": "Korean",
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
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"code": "ko",
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"code": "mk",
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"word": "código"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "nl",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "hypocritical talk",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "de",
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"feminine"
],
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"code": "de",
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"code": "hu",
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"word": "álszenteskedés"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "hypocritical talk",
"word": "frázispufogtatás"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "hypocritical talk",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "ja",
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"code": "ja",
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"code": "ko",
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"word": "위선적인 말"
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"code": "mk",
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"neuter"
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "hu",
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"code": "it",
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"feminine"
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "it",
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"ref": "1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iv, page 59:",
"text": "The Doctor here, I will proceed with the learned. / VVhen he diſcourſeth of diſſection, / Or any point of Anatomy: that hee tells you, / Of Vena caua, and of vena porta, / The Meſeraicks, and the Meſenterium. / VVhat does he elſe but cant? […] / Does he not cant? VVho here does vnderſtand him?",
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"ref": "c. 1607–1611 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], Iohn Fletcher, Cupids Revenge. […], London: […] Thomas Creede for Iosias Harison, […], published 1615, →OCLC, Act IV, signature H3, recto:",
"text": "[I]f he proue not yet / The cunningſt, ranckeſt Rogue that euer Canted, / Ile neuer ſee man againe, […]",
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"ref": "1765, Catherine Jemmat, The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed for the author, at Charing-Cross, →OCLC, page 145:",
"text": "[S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]",
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