hour of cause in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hours of cause",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, Alexander Pyne, Reminiscences of Colonial Life",
          "text": "How sad my case, then, when my hour of cause arrived, and I could lay my hands absolutely on nothing that I could carry away, and very little to eat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A time of trial or difficulty."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "trial",
          "trial"
        ],
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) A time of trial or difficulty."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hour of need"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hour of cause"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hours of cause",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hours of cause"
      },
      "expansion": "hour of cause (plural hours of cause)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hour of need"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, Alexander Pyne, Reminiscences of Colonial Life",
          "text": "How sad my case, then, when my hour of cause arrived, and I could lay my hands absolutely on nothing that I could carry away, and very little to eat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A time of trial or difficulty."
      ],
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        [
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          "time"
        ],
        [
          "trial",
          "trial"
        ],
        [
          "difficulty",
          "difficulty"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) A time of trial or difficulty."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hour of cause"
}

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"hour of cause" meaning in English

Noun