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קיין עיינע הורע

sick burn

intelligentest [1]

belle joueuse in Dickens Jr (ed), "Angelique's Martingale", All The Year Round [2]

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      " ???... The sporting player [le beau joueur] . . . collects what he has won with an air of indifference and pays what he has lost with a smile." [unknown footnote]

januis clausis MMMD, p.720. Several, including Donne!

mare clausum MMMD, p.722. It's in WP.

The other great composers had written only their ninth symphonies—perhaps not even these—had never finished the tenth symphony, for they had died in the midst of it—but he would write the tenth symphony, that which had never been written, he had promised himself—that he would begin with the tenth symphony—begin where others had ended—ended their lives. MMMD, p.740.


  • we have ways
  • ve haf vays
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Noun[edit]

parametricism (architecture)

memory hole

garbage taxon

enough room to swing a cat

snowclone:

(X can't) swing a dead cat (in Y) without hitting (a Z)

Noun[edit]

chauffeuse and chauffeuress both have numerous English citations

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

superior+-osity, but perhaps a misprint for (deprecated template usage) superiority.

Noun[edit]

sandbox (plural -ies)

  1. superiority.
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      Doubtless, Sir, they may talk as movingly as you do about " taking up the cross; " they might use words and phrases, calculated to strike the passions as forcibly as your " watry grave; " and they might with as much humility as you do, claim a superiosity over other christians, on account of their great self-denial.
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      It shows best its superiosity in addition or subtraction.
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      My kindliness, my patience, my sanity, my superiosity would gain on Renata.
      Note: The 1996 Penguin paperback edition has "superiority".
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      Bolmigant, grandiferous, disconstutive ... Knowing these words gave me a feeling of superiosity – a hybrid term, now sadly obsolete, formed by the almagation of the terms superiority and seriousness.