See foible in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"feminine"
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"tags": [
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "a weakness or failing of character",
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"word": "kling"
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"code": "es",
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"ref": "a. 1648, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, page 46",
"text": "The good Fencing-maſters, in France eſpecially, when they preſent a Foyle or Fleuret to their Scholars, tell him it hath two Parts, one of which he calleth the Fort or ſtrong, and the other the Foyble or weak […]"
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