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The abbess was always after the nuns to keep the convent immaculately clean.

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Near-synonym: convent

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But it is one Thing, to Abbreuiate by Contracting, Another by Cutting off: […]

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The curt form of gent as a less ceremonious substitute for the full expression of ‘gentleman,’ had once made considerable way, but its career was blighted in a court of justice. It is about twenty years ago that two young men, being brought before a London magistrate, described themselves as ‘gents.’ The magistrate said that he considered that a designation little better than ‘blackguard.’ The abbreviate form has never been able to recover that shock.

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Hants is an abbreviation of Hampshire.

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[W]e were legally call'd by his Majeſties writ to give our Attendance in Parliament, […] if we did not, we ſhould betray the Truſt committed to us by his Majeſtie, and ſhamefully betray and abdicate the due right both of our ſelves and Succeſſours.

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abdication of the throne, government, power, authority

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He was all bent over complaining of pains in the abdomen.

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to abduct children

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Abduction is performed by asking the patient to raise the arm at the side as high as they can with the examiner stabilizing the scapula by holding it down.

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The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.

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the aberration of youth

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aid and abet

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I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams.

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The old oak tree abides the wind endlessly.

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This phone has the ability to have its software upgraded wirelessly.

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And thus the hypothesis that living matter always arises by the agency of pre-existing living matter, took definite shape; […] It will be necessary for me to refer to this hypothesis so frequently, that, to save circumlocution, I shall call it the hypothesis of Biogenesis; and I shall term the contrary doctrine—that living matter may be produced by not living matter—the hypothesis of Abiogenesis.

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ably done, handled, planned, said

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the abolition of debts; the abolition of laws; the abolition of slavery; the abolition of police; the abolition of taxes

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The abomasa of sheep grazing on natural pastures in the highveld of Zimbabwe were examined at Mt. Hampden abattoir between October 1985 and September 1986 for H. contortus. Of 304 abomasa, 213 (70%) harboured H. contortus.

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"Much as I abominate writing, I would not give up Mr. Collins's correspondence for any consideration."

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Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / […] / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.

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Women have aborted, men have committed suicide, and both men and women have been thrown into convulsions during the fearful agony of renal colic.