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"ref": "1886, Annie Besant, Life, Death, and Immortality, London: Freethought Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, page 3",
"text": "Of all the questions which, throughout the centuries, have escaped from the lips of man, there is none which has been asked with such persistence, none which has possessed interest more perennial, than \"Whence do I come? Whither shall I go?\" Man's origin, man's hereafter, have ever been of intensest interest to man.",
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"ref": "1894, Louis Couperus, chapter II, in A[lexander] Teixeira de Mattos, Ernest Dowson, transl., Majesty, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, section VI, page 103",
"text": "And the strange sensation became still stranger within her, intenser in its two constituent parts: intenser in pride, intenser in compassionate love—that of a mistress and a mother in one.",
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"text": "Fair Æsthetic (suddenly, and in deepest tones, to Smith, who has just been introduced to take her in to Dinner). \"Are you Intense?\"",
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"code": "nn",
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"sense": "extreme or very high or strong in degree",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "extreme or very high or strong in degree",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a person: very emotional or passionate",
"word": "kiihkeä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a person: very emotional or passionate",
"word": "kiivas"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "strástnyj",
"sense": "of a person: very emotional or passionate",
"word": "стра́стный"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "gərgin"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "bizi"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "intensýŭny",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "інтэнсы́ўны"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "napregnat",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "напрегнат"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "intens"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jīliè",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "激烈"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "劇烈"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jùliè",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "剧烈"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "intenzivní"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "silný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "vášnivý"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "intens"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "intensiivinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "äärimmäinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "kova"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "intense"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "intenso"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "intensiv"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "súntonos",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "σύντονος"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "intensa"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "intens"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "dlúth"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "intenso"
},
{
"alt": "げきれつな",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gekiretsu-na",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "激烈な"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kitsui",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "きつい"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nápregnat",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "на́прегнат"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "intensywny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "tenso"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "intens"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "intensívnyj",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "интенси́вный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naprjažónnyj",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "напряжённый"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "intenso"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "yoğun"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "intensývnyj",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "інтенси́вний"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "under tension — see also strained, tense",
"word": "dwys"
}
],
"word": "intense"
}
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