"nepenthe" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "A back-formation from nepenthes.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nepenthes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nepenthe (plural nepenthes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ne‧pen‧the"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a drug that relieves one of emotional pain, grief or sorrow",
          "word": "nepenthes"
        }
      ],
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          "source": "w"
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, part II [books IV–VI], London: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, →OCLC, book IV, canto III, stanzas XLII and XLIII, page 49:",
          "text": "And in her other hand a cup ſhe hild, / The which was with Nepenthe to the brim vpfild. // Nepenthe is a drinck of ſouerayne grace, / Deuized by the Gods, for to aſſwage / Harts grief, and bitter gall away to chace, / VVhich ſtirs vp anguiſh and contentious rage: / In ſtead thereof ſweet peace and quiet age / It doth eſtablish in the troubled mynd.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y., London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 144:",
          "text": "\"Wretch,\" I cried, \"thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee / Respite—respite and Nepenthe, from thy memories of Lenore. Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of nepenthes (“a drug that relieves one of emotional pain, grief or sorrow”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-nepenthe-en-noun-2aAxoHOr",
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        ],
        [
          "drug",
          "drug#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "relieve",
          "relieve"
        ],
        [
          "emotional",
          "emotional"
        ],
        [
          "pain",
          "pain#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "grief",
          "grief#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sorrow",
          "sorrow#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Alternative form of nepenthes (“a drug that relieves one of emotional pain, grief or sorrow”)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/nɪˈpɛnθi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nəˈpɛnθi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nepenthe"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "A back-formation from nepenthes.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nepenthes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nepenthe (plural nepenthes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ne‧pen‧the"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a drug that relieves one of emotional pain, grief or sorrow",
          "word": "nepenthes"
        }
      ],
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Pages with entries"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, part II [books IV–VI], London: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, →OCLC, book IV, canto III, stanzas XLII and XLIII, page 49:",
          "text": "And in her other hand a cup ſhe hild, / The which was with Nepenthe to the brim vpfild. // Nepenthe is a drinck of ſouerayne grace, / Deuized by the Gods, for to aſſwage / Harts grief, and bitter gall away to chace, / VVhich ſtirs vp anguiſh and contentious rage: / In ſtead thereof ſweet peace and quiet age / It doth eſtablish in the troubled mynd.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y., London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 144:",
          "text": "\"Wretch,\" I cried, \"thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee / Respite—respite and Nepenthe, from thy memories of Lenore. Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of nepenthes (“a drug that relieves one of emotional pain, grief or sorrow”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nepenthes",
          "nepenthes#English"
        ],
        [
          "drug",
          "drug#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "relieve",
          "relieve"
        ],
        [
          "emotional",
          "emotional"
        ],
        [
          "pain",
          "pain#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "grief",
          "grief#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sorrow",
          "sorrow#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Alternative form of nepenthes (“a drug that relieves one of emotional pain, grief or sorrow”)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/nɪˈpɛnθi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nəˈpɛnθi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nepenthe"
}