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  • 31Ashoka — or Asoka born с 304 died с 232 BC Last major emperor (с 269–232 BC) of the Mauryan empire in India and a patron of Buddhism. After his bloody conquest of Kalinga in the eighth year of his reign, Ashoka renounced military aggression and resolved… …

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  • 32Coleridge, Samuel Taylor — born Oct. 21, 1772, Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, Eng. died July 25, 1834, Highgate, near London English poet, critic, and philosopher. Coleridge studied at the University of Cambridge, where he became closely associated with Robert Southey. In… …

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  • 33The Passion of Christ —     The Passion of Christ (Devotion)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Devotion to the Passion of Christ     See also THE PASSION OF CHRIST IN THE GOSPELS.     The sufferings of Our Lord, which culminated in His death upon the cross, seem to have… …

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  • 34Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham — (23 July, 1793 – 3 April, 1870) was an American Unitarian minister and pastor of the First Church of Boston from 1815 to 1850. Frothingham was opposed to Theodore Parker and the interjection of transcendentalism into the church. He also wrote s …

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  • 35clemency — clem·en·cy / kle mən sē/ n pl cies 1: willingness or ability to moderate the severity of a punishment (as a sentence) 2: an act or instance of mercy, compassion, or forgiveness see also amnesty, commute …

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  • 36heart — I (essential part) noun core, essence, fundamental, marrow, nerve, nucleus, pith, sum and substance associated concepts: heart of the case, heart of the pleadings II (fortitude) noun ardor, backbone, doughtiness, fearlessness, fervor, focus,… …

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  • 37humanity — I (humaneness) noun altruism, beneficence, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, charitableness, clemency, dementia, compassion, feeling, gentleness, good will, humanitas, kind hearted ness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercifulness, mercy …

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  • 38lenience — I noun acceptance, benevolence, charity, clemency, compassion, condonation, consideration, disposition to mercy, endurance, favor, flexibility, forbearance, forgiveness, forgivingness, freedom from vindictiveness, generousness, gentleness, grace …

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  • 39pity — I noun commiseration, compassion, condolement, condolence, consolation, feeling, fellow feeling, fellow suffering, fellowship in sorrow, kindliness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercifulness, mercy, misericordia, quarter, ruth, sympathy associated …

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  • 40acceptance — Synonyms and related words: CD, IOU, John Hancock, MO, OK, acceptance bill, acceptation, acception, accession, accord, acknowledgment, acquiescence, acquisition, adherence, admiration, admission, admittance, adoption, affiliation, affirmance,… …

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