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  • 131imploring — adjective begging • Syn: ↑beseeching, ↑pleading • Ant: ↑imperative (for: ↑beseeching) • Similar to: ↑adjuratory, ↑ …

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  • 132BUTTENWIESER, MOSES — (1862–1939), Bible scholar. Buttenwieser studied at German universities, received his Ph.D. at Heidelberg, and then went to the United States, where he was appointed professor of biblical exegesis at the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, in 1897 …

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