Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Retribution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Recompense; atonement; retribution.
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- noun obsolete
recompense ;atonement ;retribution
Etymologies
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Examples
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Only later, climbing over a building under refaction, could I get a full panorama.
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Only later, climbing over a building under refaction, could I get a full panorama.
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They are forbidden to read, save what their Superior permitted, or listen to what is read, save such holy things as may be recited aloud during the hours of refaction; but lo! their ears are at the command of idle minstrels, and their eyes study empty romaunts.
Ivanhoe 2004
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They are forbidden to read, save what their Superior permitted, or listen to what is read, save such holy things as may be recited aloud during the hours of refaction; but lo! their ears are at the command of idle minstrels, and their eyes study empty romaunts.
Ivanhoe 1892
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They are forbidden to read, save what their Superior permitted, or listen to what is read, save such holy things as may be recited aloud during the hours of refaction; but lo! their ears are at the command of idle minstrels, and their eyes study empty romaunts.
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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They are forbidden to read, save what their Superior permitted, or listen to what is read, save such holy things as may be recited aloud during the hours of refaction; but lo! their ears are at the command of idle minstrels, and their eyes study empty romaunts.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801
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