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  • 21Godiva, Lady — flourished с 1040–1080 Anglo Saxon gentlewoman famous for her legendary ride nude through Coventry, Eng. She was the wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia (d. 1057), with whom she founded a monastery at Coventry. There is no evidence connecting the… …

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  • 22The Bollandists —     The Bollandists     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Bollandists     An association of ecclesiastical scholars engaged in editing the Acta Sanctorum. This work is a great hagiographical collection begun during the first years of the seventeenth… …

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  • 23glance — I n. 1) to cast, dart, shoot; steal a glance at 2) to exchange glances 3) an admiring; amused; casual, cursory, fleeting, passing; conspiratorial; disapproving, indignant; furtive, stolen, surreptitious; imploring; knowing; meaningful,… …

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  • 24implore — im|plore [ımˈplo: US o:r] v [I and T] formal [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: implorer, from Latin, from plorare to cry out ] to ask for something in an emotional way = ↑beg ▪ Don t go, I implored her. implore sb to do sth ▪ She implored the… …

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  • 25implore — [c]/ɪmˈplɔ / (say im plaw) verb (implored, imploring) –verb (t) 1. to call upon in urgent or piteous supplication, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: they implored him to go. 2. to make urgent supplication for (aid, mercy, pardon, etc.).… …

  • 26LETTERS AND LETTER WRITERS — The letter holds an honored place in Jewish history and literature and includes diplomatic correspondence, state papers, and letters as vehicles of religious or secular literature and as a means of polemics in communal and spiritual matters,… …

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  • 27Appealing — Ap*peal ing, a. That appeals; imploring. {Ap*peal ing*ly}, adv. {Ap*peal ing*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 28Appealingly — Appealing Ap*peal ing, a. That appeals; imploring. {Ap*peal ing*ly}, adv. {Ap*peal ing*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 29Appealingness — Appealing Ap*peal ing, a. That appeals; imploring. {Ap*peal ing*ly}, adv. {Ap*peal ing*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 30Beseeching — Be*seech ing, a. Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. {Be*seech ing*ly}, adv. {Be*seech ing*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …

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