"officer-like" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more officer-like",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most officer-like",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 299:",
          "text": "[…] for from her husband’s representations of me, she had formed a notion that she was to see a fine, tall, officer-like looking man (I use her very words); […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1876, Robert Brewin, “Visits and Visitors”, in Memoirs of Rebecca Wakefield, Wife of the Rev. T. Wakefield, United Methodist Free Churches Missionary in Eastern Africa, London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., […], pages 164–165:",
          "text": "The Secretary of Legation came next, then Captain Fairfax, commander of the Enchantress, and then by degrees stepped forward more tall, officer-like gentlemen—majors, lieutenants, colonels, captains, &c., whose names I need not mention.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Matthew Barrett, “Introduction”, in Scandalous Conduct: Canadian Officer Courts Martial, 1914–45, University of British Columbia Press, →ISBN, page 10:",
          "text": "Understanding how divergent codes of masculinity informed ideas about officer-like conduct and gentlemanliness therefore reveals the values, assumptions, and taboos in military culture.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of officerlike."
      ],
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  "word": "officer-like"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more officer-like",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most officer-like",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
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          "ref": "1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 299:",
          "text": "[…] for from her husband’s representations of me, she had formed a notion that she was to see a fine, tall, officer-like looking man (I use her very words); […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876, Robert Brewin, “Visits and Visitors”, in Memoirs of Rebecca Wakefield, Wife of the Rev. T. Wakefield, United Methodist Free Churches Missionary in Eastern Africa, London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., […], pages 164–165:",
          "text": "The Secretary of Legation came next, then Captain Fairfax, commander of the Enchantress, and then by degrees stepped forward more tall, officer-like gentlemen—majors, lieutenants, colonels, captains, &c., whose names I need not mention.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Matthew Barrett, “Introduction”, in Scandalous Conduct: Canadian Officer Courts Martial, 1914–45, University of British Columbia Press, →ISBN, page 10:",
          "text": "Understanding how divergent codes of masculinity informed ideas about officer-like conduct and gentlemanliness therefore reveals the values, assumptions, and taboos in military culture.",
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