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"ref": "1756, George Benson, “The Præface. To the First Edition.”, in The History of the First Planting of the Christian Religion: Taken from the Acts of the Apostles, and Their Epistles. Together with the Remarkable Facts of the Jewish and Roman History; Which Affected the Christians, Within This Period., the second edition, volume the first, London: […] J. Waugh and W. Fenner, page v",
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"sense": "better than some other option",
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"word": "مُفَضَّل"
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"sense": "better than some other option",
"word": "უმჯობესი"
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"sense": "better than some other option",
"word": "უპირატესი"
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"word": "bevorzugt"
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"word": "προτιμητέος"
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"sense": "better than some other option",
"word": "preferibile"
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"word": "ましな"
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"alt": "～よりこのましい",
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"roman": "-yori konomashii",
"sense": "better than some other option",
"word": "～より好ましい"
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"sense": "better than some other option",
"word": "더 좋다"
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"sense": "better than some other option",
"word": "potior"
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"word": "найкра́щий"
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"roman": "najlípšyj",
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