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],
[
"convent",
"convent"
],
[
"abbess",
"abbess"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A term of address for a woman"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
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112,
118
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],
"english": "And since I've spoken about gluttony, / Now, I'll prevent you from dice-playing; / Dice games are literally the source of falsehoods, / deception, and false testimonies […]",
"ref": "a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoner's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 589–592:",
"text": "And now that I have ſpoken of glotonye, / Now wol I yow deffenden haſardrye; / Haſard is verray mooder of leſynges, / And of deceite, and curſed forſwerynges[…]",
"translation": "And since I've spoken about gluttony, / Now, I'll prevent you from dice-playing; / Dice games are literally the source of falsehoods, / deception, and false testimonies […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person, thing, or place likened to a mother (in begetting, caring, or nourishing)"
],
"links": [
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"person",
"person"
],
[
"thing",
"thing"
],
[
"place",
"place"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"A person, thing, or place likened to a mother (in begetting, caring, or nourishing):"
]
},
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"categories": [
"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
"glosses": [
"A person, thing, or place likened to a mother (in begetting, caring, or nourishing):",
"A trait, virtue, or vice likened to a mother (in begetting, caring, or nourishing)"
],
"links": [
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"person",
"person"
],
[
"thing",
"thing"
],
[
"place",
"place"
],
[
"trait",
"trait"
],
[
"virtue",
"virtue"
],
[
"vice",
"vice"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
"glosses": [
"A person, thing, or place likened to a mother (in begetting, caring, or nourishing):",
"The womb (as a protector and nourisher)."
],
"links": [
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"thing",
"thing"
],
[
"place",
"place"
],
[
"protect",
"protect#English"
],
[
"nourish",
"nourish#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmoːdər/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmoːðər/",
"tags": [
"Late-Middle-English"
]
}
],
"word": "moder"
}
Download raw JSONL data for moder meaning in Middle English (7.3kB)
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