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  • 41Marie Amelie von Godin — Marie Amelie Julie Anna, Baroness von Godin (March 7, 1882 to 22 February 1956), sometimes written as Maria Amalia, was a Bavarian women s rights activist, translator and Albanalogist. Contents 1 Youth 2 Friendship with Albania 3 Act …

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  • 42overdone — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, artificial, ballyhooed, bedizened, bien cuit, big sounding, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, done, doneness, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated,… …

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  • 43overdrawn — Synonyms and related words: aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed, disproportionate, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, grandiloquent, high flown, hyperbolic, inflated, inordinate, magnified, overdone, overemphasized,… …

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  • 44overwrought — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, arabesque, ballyhooed, baroque, bedizened, big sounding, busy, chichi, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, distracted, edgy, elaborate, elegant,… …

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  • 45SPASMODIC SCHOOL —    name given to a small group of minor poets about the middle of the 19th century, represented by Philips, James Bailey, Sydney Dobell, and Alexander Smith, from their strenuous, overstrained, and unnatural style …

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  • 46Gershom ben-Judah — (c. 960–1028)    German Talmud scholar. Rabbi Gershom’s reputation was so high that he was known as Meor ha Golah, ‘The Light of the Exile’. He seems to have been born in Metz, in Lorraine, but he lived in Mainz, where he had his academy.… …

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  • 47high-flown — a. 1. Elevated, presumptuous, swollen, proud, lofty. 2. Extravagant, lofty, high colored, over drawn, overstrained. 3. Turgid, swollen, bombastic, pretentious, pompous, strained …

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  • 48outré — a. [Fr.] Extravagant, excessive, exorbitant, immoderate, inordinate, overstrained …

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  • 49curative — curative, sanative, restorative, remedial, corrective are comparable when they mean returning or tending to return to a state of normalcy or health. Curative is applicable to whatever effects or, sometimes, seeks or tends to effect a complete… …

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  • 50lethargy — lethargy, languor, lassitude, stupor, torpor, torpidity are comparable when meaning physical and mental inertness. Lethargy implies a state marked by an aversion to activity which may be constitutional but is typically induced by disease, extreme …

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