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- adjective Dated form of
Slavonian . - noun Dated form of
Slavonian .
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Examples
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At last, one that seemed of authority among them, held out his hand; and, taking the purse, said something in Sclavonian; and two of them, with their pieces slung on their shoulders, and their sabres drawn, led me out of the wood in safety; but hoped, at parting, my farther generosity.
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Sclavonian peasantry in the more remote provinces of Austria.
Amy Foster 2006
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In Esthonia, amongst the poor Sclavonian race of peasant slaves, they pay tributes to their lords, not under the name of duty work, duty geese, duty turkeys, etc., but under the name of
Castle Rackrent 2006
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If you were to write so to an antiquarian, he (knowing you to be a man of learning) would certainly try it by the Runic, Celtic, or Sclavonian alphabet, never suspecting it to be
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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For my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well: so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Wallachian is formed from Latin and Sclavonian; why then is not the word for water either woda or aqua, or a modification of either?
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Central Russia; from the Sclavonian frontier on the west to China,
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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What made these cruelties appear still more horrible, was the part taken in them by the Uzcoque women, who, as was the case at that period with most of the Sclavonian races, were all trained to the use of arms, [1] and who on this occasion swelled the ranks of the freebooters.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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Sclavonian, and several other living languages, so as never to want an interpreter to converse with ambassadors of neighboring nations.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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'The truth is that among the Celtic and Sclavonian families service is felt to be honorable; those engaged in it take it up as a respectable and desirable condition.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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