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sanctimony
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piety, holiness, sacredness
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pox
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any disease producing rashes of pimples that leave pockmarks on healing; a pox on = anger or impatience with
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conjunctive
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serving to join; connective
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cuckold
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n. = the husband of an adulteress
v. = to have a sexual relationship with another man's wife |
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profane
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irreverent, blasphemous, heathen; secular
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engendered
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brought about; begotten
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discern
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percieve clearly with the mind or senses
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segregation
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enforced separation of (racial) groups
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desperate
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reckless from despair; violent and lawless
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grievous
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severe OR causing grief or suffering
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surfeited
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overfed / overeat(ed); caused to wear by excess
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paragons
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models (of excellence)
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contentions
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disputes, arguments; a point asserted into an argument (it is my contention that you are wrong)
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chides (v)
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to scold, rebuke
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chronicle
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narrative of events in chronological order
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discords
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disagreements
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prithee
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(I prithee) pray, please (I pray thee)
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satiety
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the state of being contented; the feeling of having too much of something; satiety of = a cloyed dislike of
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voluble
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spoken vehemently, incessantly, or fluently
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conscionable
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acceptable or permissible according to one's conscience
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