play a rôle

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play a rôle (third-person singular simple present plays a rôle, present participle playing a rôle, simple past and past participle played a rôle)

  1. Dated spelling of play a role.
    • 2016, Kevin Mulligan, chapter 13, in Leo Zaibert, editor, The Theory and Practice of Ontology[1], Schenectady, New York: Malgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 257:
      At some time in the acquisition of a virtue a grasp of value and a mastery of axiological concepts must begin to play a rôle.