English Synonymes Classified and Explained: With Practical Exercises. Designed for Schools and Private TuitionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - 425 páginas |
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... intensive property of the words , and neglects to examine the attendant shades by which the one may be distinguished from the other . It is not asserting too much to declare , that scarcely any give themselves trouble to search for ...
... intensive property of the words , and neglects to examine the attendant shades by which the one may be distinguished from the other . It is not asserting too much to declare , that scarcely any give themselves trouble to search for ...
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... intensive degree expressed in the latter word . Brilliant is bright and something more , or it expresses a higher and more intensive de- gree of bright . A difference of degree will also mark the distinction between the words breeze and ...
... intensive degree expressed in the latter word . Brilliant is bright and something more , or it expresses a higher and more intensive de- gree of bright . A difference of degree will also mark the distinction between the words breeze and ...
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... intensive degree of the former . Whenever the difference between two words may be accounted for on this principle , such words may be termed synonymes of intensity . A fourth class of differences may be formed under the head of POSITIVE ...
... intensive degree of the former . Whenever the difference between two words may be accounted for on this principle , such words may be termed synonymes of intensity . A fourth class of differences may be formed under the head of POSITIVE ...
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... intensive degree of the first . Here again , the student must be cautioned against confounding this principle with grammatical comparison . In grammar , the comparative is a more intensive form of the same word ( the adjective ) , and ...
... intensive degree of the first . Here again , the student must be cautioned against confounding this principle with grammatical comparison . In grammar , the comparative is a more intensive form of the same word ( the adjective ) , and ...
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... intensive compunction . Remorse denotes a gnashing or biting . The former is ex- pressive of the sorrow caused by minor offences ; the latter conveys an idea of the excessive pain the soul feels at the sense of its crimes , and is ...
... intensive compunction . Remorse denotes a gnashing or biting . The former is ex- pressive of the sorrow caused by minor offences ; the latter conveys an idea of the excessive pain the soul feels at the sense of its crimes , and is ...
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