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2010
Adjectives
1. (adj.) enured, hardened, inured;
- made tough by habitual exposure;
- “hardened fishermen”; “a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured”; “our successors…may be graver, more inured and equable men”;
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30
01
2010
Nouns
1. (n.) pantheon;
- all the gods of a religion;
2. (n.) pantheon;
- a monument commemorating a nation’s dead heroes;
3. (n.) pantheon;
- (antiquity) a temple to all the gods;
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30
01
2010
Nouns
1. (n.) authorship, composition, penning, writing;
- the act of creating written works;
- “writing was a form of therapy for him”; “it was a matter of disputed authorship”;
2. (n.) piece of writing, writing, written material;
- the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect);
- “the writing in her novels is excellent”; “that editorial was a fine piece of writing”;
3. (n.) writing;
- (usually plural) the collected work of an author;
- “the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway’s writings”;
4. (n.) writing;
- letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language;
- “he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn’t show”; “the doctor’s writing was illegible”;
5. (n.) committal to writing, writing;
- the activity of putting something in written form;
- “she did the thinking while he did the writing”;
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29
01
2010
Adjectives
1. (adj.) precedential;
- having precedence (especially because of longer service);
- “precedential treatment for senior members of the firm”;
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29
01
2010
Adjectives
1. (adj.) regular, veritable;
- often used as intensifiers;
- “a regular morass of details”; “a regular nincompoop”; “he’s a veritable swine”;
2. (adj.) authentic, bona fide, unquestionable, veritable;
- not counterfeit or copied;
- “an authentic signature”; “a bona fide manuscript”; “an unquestionable antique”; “photographs taken in a veritable bull ring”;
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