English Synonyms with Etymologies and Examples and an Appendix, Containing an Alphabetical List of Prefixes and AffixesLechner, 1883 |
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... an act . It is always accompanied by an external result . Action , when qualified , takes an adjective before it ; Act , very seldom . Thus we say : A charitable action , but an act of charity . Ex .: A good action is never lost . A 7.
... an act . It is always accompanied by an external result . Action , when qualified , takes an adjective before it ; Act , very seldom . Thus we say : A charitable action , but an act of charity . Ex .: A good action is never lost . A 7.
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Frederick Bryon Norman. Ex .: A good action is never lost . A mean action is always despised . Deed ( A. S. daed ; Ice . dad ; Ger . That ) is nearly the same as act , but it always implies an external result . Ex .: Many a deed , deemed ...
Frederick Bryon Norman. Ex .: A good action is never lost . A mean action is always despised . Deed ( A. S. daed ; Ice . dad ; Ger . That ) is nearly the same as act , but it always implies an external result . Ex .: Many a deed , deemed ...
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... never changes . It is also used figuratively . Ex .: Wisdom and worth were all he had , But these were all to me . The Value ( Fr. valeur ; L. valeo , to be worth ) of a thing is the price that such a thing would fetch , if sold ...
... never changes . It is also used figuratively . Ex .: Wisdom and worth were all he had , But these were all to me . The Value ( Fr. valeur ; L. valeo , to be worth ) of a thing is the price that such a thing would fetch , if sold ...
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... never under tyranny like this . Oppression ( Fr. oppression ; L. opprimo , oppressum , to press down , to crush ) is hard and severe rule or government . It is generally used in a collective sense , and implies in it an idea of ...
... never under tyranny like this . Oppression ( Fr. oppression ; L. opprimo , oppressum , to press down , to crush ) is hard and severe rule or government . It is generally used in a collective sense , and implies in it an idea of ...
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... never addressed their worship directly to the Supreme Being , but to inferior deities . Divinity ( Fr. divinité ; L. divinitas ) besides signifying the Supreme Being , means also the nature or essence of God ; as well as theology . Ex ...
... never addressed their worship directly to the Supreme Being , but to inferior deities . Divinity ( Fr. divinité ; L. divinitas ) besides signifying the Supreme Being , means also the nature or essence of God ; as well as theology . Ex ...
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32 Leave A. S. pref action Anglo-Saxon applied atum bad company bandon Barbarous Bashfulness Beatitude beautiful beneath brooklet Captive Celt charm child clever Cloister Contrition courage cresco Cultivation danger degree delight denotes diligent Disapprobation Divine English Synonyms excursion express falsehood famous fear feeling Fertile figurative sense Fortitude Gael gain gift give given Goth Greek grief Handsome happy Heaven heavenly implies Inhuman innocent labour lego liable liberty lika Low L manners Maternal mind Miserable Miserly misfortune Motherly nearly never niggardly Norman odour offence paths of glory Perfume person or thing Pity pleasing praise pres pretty Pride 16 punishment Reckon reference Reform relayer Reproof revenge rough Scent Scot signifies smell sorrow soul speaking Stingy story strong stronger suffer sweet tall tear tell thee thou truth Untruth Vale Vanity verbs Vienna void vulgus words
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Page 76 - TwAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...