See puny in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "punily"
},
{
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"word": "puniness"
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"2": "puisne>inferior",
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},
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ǵenh₁-"
},
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},
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"2": "xno",
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"t": "later, more recent; junior; weakly"
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"expansion": "Anglo-Norman puisné (“later, more recent; junior; weakly”)",
"name": "der"
},
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"1": "puné, puiné, punie, pusné",
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},
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"name": "nb..."
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"2": "frm",
"3": "puisné",
"t": "born after (a specified person); younger, youngest; one who is born after (a specified person)"
},
"expansion": "Middle French puisné (“born after (a specified person); younger, youngest; one who is born after (a specified person)”)",
"name": "der"
},
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"args": {
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},
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"name": "cog"
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"2": "fro",
"3": "pois",
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"name": "der"
},
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "VL.",
"3": "*postius",
"t": "afterward"
},
"expansion": "Vulgar Latin *postius (“afterward”)",
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},
{
"args": {
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"2": "la",
"3": "posteā",
"t": "afterwards; hereafter; thereafter; next, then"
},
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},
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"2": "ine-pro",
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"t": "afterwards"
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"name": "der"
},
{
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"2": "la",
"3": "nātus",
"t": "born"
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ǵenh₁-",
"t": "to beget; to give birth; to produce"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”)",
"name": "der"
}
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"forms": [
{
"form": "punier",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "puniest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "er"
},
"expansion": "puny (comparative punier, superlative puniest)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
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"pu‧ny"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "You puny earthlings are no match for Ming the Merciless!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I have forgotten who I am: am I not the King? […] Is not the King's name worth the names of twenty thousand people? / To arms, my name! An inferior subject strikes / At your great glory, […]",
"ref": "1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:",
"text": "I had forgot my ſelfe, am I not King? […] Is not the Kings name twenty thouſand names? / Arme arme, my name a puny ſubiect ſtrikes, / At thy great glorie, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 177, column 1:",
"text": "And twentie of theſe punie lies Ile tell, / That men ſhall ſweare I haue diſcontinued ſchoole / About a twelue moneth: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1791, James Boswell, “[1755]”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 163:",
"text": "How ſhould puny ſcribblers be abaſhed and diſappointed, when they find him diſplaying a perfect theory of lexicographical excellence, yet at the ſame time candidly and modeſtly allowing that he \"had not ſatisfied his own expectations.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1827, [John Keble], “Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 87:",
"text": "[W]e dart / O'er wave or field: yet breezes laugh to scorn // Our puny speed, […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of inferior significance, size, or strength; ineffective, small, weak."
],
"id": "en-puny-en-adj-g3nwAg2Z",
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"inferior",
"inferior#Adjective"
],
[
"significance",
"significance"
],
[
"size",
"size"
],
[
"strength",
"strength"
],
[
"ineffective",
"ineffective"
],
[
"small",
"small"
],
[
"weak",
"weak"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "scrawny"
},
{
"word": "small"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dreben",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "дребен"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nedorasǎl",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "недорасъл"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "desnerit"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "escarransit"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "feble"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "ruòxiǎo",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "弱小"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wēixiǎo",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "微小"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "drobný"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "malý"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "drobounký"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "sølle"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "ijdel"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "klein"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "nietig"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "zwak"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "mitätön"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "vähäpätöinen"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "chétif"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "frêle"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "kläglich"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "klein"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "kümmerlich"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "mickrig"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "schwächlich"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "adýnatos",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "αδύνατος"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "mikrokamoménos",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "μικροκαμωμένος"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "mikrós",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "μικρός"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "aimlithe"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "gracile"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "sparuto"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "chippoke na",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "ちっぽけな"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"alt": "きょじゃくな",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kyojaku na",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "虚弱な"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"alt": "よわよわしい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yowayowashii",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "弱々しい"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jageumahada",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "자그마하다"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "pusillus"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "krappeg"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "kaurehe"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "pūkiki"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "rehe"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "ynkelig"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "wątły"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "fraco"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "franzino"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "pequeno"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "króxotnyj",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "кро́хотный"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "króšečnyj",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "кро́шечный"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "flojo"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "gualtrapas"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "tirillas"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "tanig"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "ynklig"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 5 28 7 18",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
"word": "ynkligt liten"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Midland US English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Southern US English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"(Frequently) ill; poorly, sickly."
],
"id": "en-puny-en-adj-dXhrGnIq",
"links": [
[
"Frequently",
"frequently"
],
[
"ill",
"ill#Adjective"
],
[
"poorly",
"poorly#Adjective"
],
[
"sickly",
"sickly#Adjective"
]
],
"qualifier": "south Midland US",
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly Southern US, south Midland US) (Frequently) ill; poorly, sickly."
],
"tags": [
"Southern-US"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1676 December 11 (first performance), [William] Wycherley, The Plain-Dealer. A Comedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for James Magnes and Rich[ard] Bentley […], published 1677, →OCLC, Act III, page 42:",
"text": "Gadsbodkins, you puny Upſtart in the Law, to uſe me ſo, you Green Bag Carrier, you Murderer of unfortunate Cauſes, the Clerks Ink is ſcarce off of your fingers, you that newly come from Lamblacking the Judges ſhooes, and are not fit to wipe mine; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “How John Look’d Over His Attorney’s Bill”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 20:",
"text": "WHEN John firſt brought out the Bills, the Surprize of all the Family was unexpreſſible, at the prodigious Dimenſions of them; […] Fees to Judges, puny Judges, Clerks, Prothonotories, Philizers, Chirographers, Underclerks, Proclamators, Counſel, Witneſſes, Jury-men, Marſhals, Tipſtaffs, Cryers, Porters; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1733, [Jonathan Swift], On Poetry: A Rapsody, Dublin, London: […] [R. Fleming] [a]nd sold by J. Huggonson, […], →OCLC, page 15, lines 237–240:",
"text": "But if you think this Trade to baſe, / (Which ſeldom is the Dunce's Caſe) / Put on the Critick's Brow, and ſit / At Wills the puny Judge of Wit.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1871 (date written), Anthony Trollope, “Daniel Thwaite receives his Money”, in Lady Anna. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1874, →OCLC, pages 111–112:",
"text": "Many thought that he had altogether cut his own throat, and that he would have to take the first \"puny\" judgeship vacant.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of puisne",
"Inferior in rank; specifically, of a judge: junior."
],
"id": "en-puny-en-adj-QN1nk~4~",
"links": [
[
"puisne",
"puisne#English"
],
[
"rank",
"rank#Noun"
],
[
"judge",
"judge#Noun"
],
[
"junior",
"junior#Adjective"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Alternative spelling of puisne",
"Inferior in rank; specifically, of a judge: junior."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of puisne",
"Coming later in time; secondary, subsequent."
],
"id": "en-puny-en-adj-deU0TrHS",
"links": [
[
"puisne",
"puisne#English"
],
[
"Coming",
"come#Verb"
],
[
"later",
"later"
],
[
"time",
"time#Noun"
],
[
"secondary",
"secondary"
],
[
"subsequent",
"subsequent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Alternative spelling of puisne",
"Coming later in time; secondary, subsequent."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "7 0 8 5 13 22 0 22 5 18",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of puisne",
"Not experienced; novice."
],
"id": "en-puny-en-adj-JgE4~W0j",
"links": [
[
"puisne",
"puisne#English"
],
[
"experienced",
"experienced#Adjective"
],
[
"novice",
"novice#Adjective"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Alternative spelling of puisne",
"Not experienced; novice."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpjuːni/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"ref": "1676 December 11 (first performance), [William] Wycherley, The Plain-Dealer. A Comedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for James Magnes and Rich[ard] Bentley […], published 1677, →OCLC, Act III, page 42:",
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"code": "pl",
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "of inferior size — see also small",
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{
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"word": "gualtrapas"
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},
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"t": "cadet (born after a sibling); a cadet (someone born after a sibling)"
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"2": "VL.",
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"t": "afterward"
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},
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"args": {
"1": "en",
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"t": "to beget; to give birth; to produce"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”)",
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"text": "(inferior person): ·"
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"ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 374:",
"text": "[T]hou chuff, thou puny, thou got in the peasestraw thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of a rebel, thou dykedropt, […]",
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"word": "underling"
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"word": "vassal"
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"word": "nonentity"
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"word": "worthless person"
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"ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, “An Apologie of Raymond Sebond”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, pages 333–334:",
"text": "[A] law that the eldeſt or firſt-borne child ſhall ſucceede and inherite all: where nothing is reſerved for punies, but obedience: […] Theſe vaine ſhadowes of our religion, which are ſeene in ſome of theſe examples, witnes the dignitie and divinity thereof.",
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"ref": "1642, Thomas Fuller, “The Good Generall”, in The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC, book IV, paragraph 5, page 328:",
"text": "For a worthy man is wounded more deeply by his own Generalls neglect, then by his enemies ſword: […] Who had rather others ſhould make a ladder of his dead corps to ſcale a city by it, then a bridge of him whileſt alive for his punies to give him the Goe-by, and paſſe over him to preferment.",
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"ref": "1607, attributed to Thomas Middleton or Cyril Tourneur, The Revengers Tragædie. […], London: […] G[eorge] Eld, […], →OCLC, Act I:",
"text": "Nay then I ſee thou'rt but a puny in the ſubtill Miſtery of a woman: […]",
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"ref": "c. 1610, “[The Election of the Prince]”, in Frederick S[amuel] Boas, editor, The Christmas Prince (The Malone Society Reprints; 47b), London: Printed for the Malone Society by Frederick Hall M.A. at the Oxford University Press, published 1923 (indicated as 1922), →OCLC, page 3, lines 9–12 and 14–18:",
"text": "[T]he whole companye or most parte of the Studentꝭ [Studentis] of the same house mette toogether to beginne their Christmas, of wᶜʰ som̃e came to see sports […] others to make sporte wᵗʰall of this last sorte were they whome they call Fresh-menn Punies of the first yeare, who are by no meanes admitted to be agent's or behoulders of those sports, before themselues haue biñe patient perfourmers of them.",
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"word": "fresher"
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"word": "freshman"
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"word": "new bug"
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"word": "novi"
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"word": "shadow"
}
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