for best in English

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{
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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        {
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              44,
              52
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          "ref": "1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):",
          "text": "Those constitutions […] are now established for best, and not to be mended.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "for good; permanently"
      ],
      "id": "en-for_best-en-prep_phrase-D~td54Q~",
      "links": [
        [
          "for good",
          "for good"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) for good; permanently"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "for best"
}

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{
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English prepositional phrases",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
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          "ref": "1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):",
          "text": "Those constitutions […] are now established for best, and not to be mended.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "for good; permanently"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "for good",
          "for good"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) for good; permanently"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "for best"
}

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"for best" meaning in English

Prepositional phrase