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"text": "Should true Proportion ev'ry Mortal grace, / And Semetry be seen in ev'ry Face: / Beauty no longer would be thought divine, / Nor would its Charms with half the Lustre shine: / No courtly Dame a killing Look could boast, / If once the Foils of Homeliness were lost.",
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"ref": "1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 471",
"text": "Livia found her ‘killing’, and derived such amusement from her Martinique French that he was forced to enjoy her as well.",
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "assassinio"
},
{
"alt": "ころすこと",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "korosu koto",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"word": "殺すこと"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nex"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "interfectiō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mactatio"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mortificatio"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "caesum"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "exanimatio"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "letum"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ubistvo",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "убиство"
},
{
"code": "oj",
"lang": "Ojibwe",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"word": "nitaagewin"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mansliht"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sleġe"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "assassinato"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubíjstvo",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "уби́йство"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "animals",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubój",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "убо́й"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "umerščvlénije",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "умерщвле́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubijénije",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "убие́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lišénije žízni",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "лише́ние жи́зни"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "ghāta",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "घात"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "asesinato"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "campuṭa",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"word": "చంపుట"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"word": "kāwälñe"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"word": "katledilme"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"word": "öldürülme"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "touwaedje"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"english": "criminal",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "moude"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large amount of money",
"word": "jättisumma"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large amount of money",
"word": "jättipotti"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "large amount of money",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Reibach"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"killing"
],
"word": "killing"
}
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