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- noun Archaic spelling of
navy .
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Examples
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There is probably too much name calling on both sides, but people are navie to think one side or the other cares more about them.
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How can you Clinton supporters being so – navie - The current congress has not even submit a bill that would address a Holiday Tax.
Polls: Clinton gets lead in Indiana; Obama holds in North Carolina 2008
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Who could have guessed that a European rivalry would play itself out several hundred years after Philip's Armada was sunk by Elizabeth's navie?
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Don't be navie enough to think that the Mayor did not alreay have the N.R.A. "in his sights" to begin with.
Mike Bloomberg vs. 2006
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The Mariers Bassi masters over the shipwrights and kalkers of the navie, nine, at 20.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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England and of the Low Countreys would at the first sight of the Spanish and Dunkerk navie have betaken themselves to flight, yeelding them sea-room, and endeavoring only to defend themselues, their havens, and sea-coasts from invasion.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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And Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, "prepared such a greate navie as lightly hath not been seene before gathered in manner of all nations, which armie laie at the mouth of the Seyne ready to fight with the Earl of Warwick, when he should set out of his harborowe."
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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And Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, "prepared such a greate navie as lightly hath not been seene before gathered in manner of all nations, which armie laie at the mouth of the Seyne ready to fight with the Earl of Warwick, when he should set out of his harborowe."
The Last of the Barons — Volume 10 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Dautre p't totes nos niefs, cest assavoir Cristofre et les autres qi estoient p'dues a Middelburgh, sont ore regaignez, et il yount gaignez en ceste navie trois ou quatre auxi graundes come la
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Obama promised that unemployment would go down, because he was navie enough to think that we could all work together to accomplish this, since we are all Americans and our country means everything to us.
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