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"sense": "of or having to do with royalty",
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"sense": "of or having to do with royalty",
"word": "രാജകീയ"
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"sense": "of or having to do with royalty",
"word": "régio"
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"sense": "of or having to do with royalty",
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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of or having to do with royalty",
"word": "kraljevski"
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"ref": "2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848",
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"ref": "2018 July 14, Gary Lineker, Twitter, retrieved 2018-07-15",
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"ref": "2022 December 10, Harry Taylor, “Liz Truss and I ‘got carried away’ writing mini-budget, admits Kwasi Kwarteng”, in The Guardian",
"text": "Kwarteng said he had urged Truss to “slow down” over reforms, but a cabinet minister told the FT that she felt “invincible, almost regal”.",
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"ref": "c. 1898, Truth, column 2",
"text": "The children to whom I acted as cicerone almost screamed with glee as they saw the four-and-twenty blackbirds emerging from the pie-crust in front of the astonished King; and when the climax of the inconsequential story was reached, by way of the regal counting house and the “reginal” parlour, and a blackbird (presumably one of the four-and-twenty that had been temporarily immured in the pie) was seen about to revenge himself on the innocent nose of the guiltless laundry-maid, a veritable climax of enthusiasm was reached.",
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"ref": "c. 1947, Hobbies, page 27, column 1",
"text": "The crown seals, a regal crown and a reginal crown are unengraved, but from the motif I judge they symbolize King William III of England and Queen Mary, (see 1688, English History) who formerly ruled Holland as Prince William, Consort, and Queen Mary — The House of Orange.",
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"ref": "1973, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, page 78, column 2",
"text": "In any case, the discrepancy might be explained by the fact that the 9th pylon has not yet disgorged all it blocks; it is in the talatat from this pylon that the masonry of the essentially regal (as opposed to reginal) temples Tni-mnw and Rwd-mnw predominate.",
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