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"expansion": "Doublet of viola",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle French viole, from Old French viol, from Old Occitan viola (modern Occitan viula), from Medieval Latin vitula (“stringed instrument”). Doublet of viola.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "viols",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "violing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "violed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "violed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "viol (third-person singular simple present viols, present participle violing, simple past and past participle violed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC:",
"text": "“Keep your gold for those who lack it, mistress,” said Henry, “and do not offer to honest hands the money that is won by violing, and tabouring, and toetripping, and perhaps worse pastimes.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1914, Thomas Hardy, Seen by the Waits:",
"text": "Through snowy woods and shady / We went to play a tune / To the lonely manor-lady / By the light of the Christmas moon. / We violed till, upward glancing / To where a mirror leaned, / It showed her airily dancing […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To play the viol."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈvaɪ.əl/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪəl"
},
{
"homophone": "vial"
},
{
"homophone": "vile"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"viol"
],
"word": "viol"
}
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