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"sense": "to attribute a person's name to",
"word": "sætte ansigt på"
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"sense": "to attribute a person's name to",
"word": "associare un nome a"
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"ref": "1986, Stephen King, chapter 7, in It, New York: Viking, page 295",
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"ref": "1697, Thomas Burnet, Second Remarks upon An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, page 30",
"text": "how unusual soever it is to put a Name to such small Papers",
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"text": "1711, F. Manning, “Memorial to the Grisons” in The Present State of Europe, February 1711, Volume 12, p. 57,\nLibels which have been publish’d, but which no Body durst put a Name to"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to attribute a person's name to",
"word": "sætte ansigt på"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to attribute a person's name to",
"word": "Danish: sætte navn på"
},
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"sense": "to attribute a person's name to",
"word": "associare un nome a"
}
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