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avery
(encz) | Avery,Avery n: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA, ženské křestní jméno,
mužské křestní jméno Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
avery
(czen) | Avery,Averyn: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA, ženské křestní jméno,
mužské křestní jméno Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
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slavery
(mass) | slavery
- otroctvo |
abolish slavery
(encz) | abolish slavery,zrušit otroctví v: |
antislavery
(encz) | antislavery,protiotrokářský adj: Zdeněk Brož |
bravery
(encz) | bravery,hrdinství n: Zdeněk Brožbravery,odvaha n: Zdeněk Brožbravery,statečnost n: Zdeněk Brožbravery,udatnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
knavery
(encz) | knavery,darebáctví n: Zdeněk Brož |
quavery
(encz) | quavery,s chvějícím se hlasem Zdeněk Brož |
slavery
(encz) | slavery,otroctví n: Zdeněk Brož |
white slavery
(encz) | white slavery,obchod s děvčaty n: Zdeněk Brož |
Antislavery
(gcide) | Antislavery \An`ti*slav"er*y\, a.
Opposed to slavery. -- n. Opposition to slavery.
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Bravery
(gcide) | Bravery \Brav"er*y\, n. [Cf. F. braverie.]
1. The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity.
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Remember, sir, my liege, . . .
The natural bravery of your isle. --Shak.
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2. The act of braving; defiance; bravado. [Obs.]
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Reform, then, without bravery or scandal of former
times and persons. --Bacon.
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3. Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance; ostentation;
fine dress.
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With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery.
--Shak.
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Like a stately ship . . .
With all her bravery on, and tackle trim. --Milton.
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4. A showy person; a fine gentleman; a beau. [Obs.]
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A man that is the bravery of his age. --Beau. & Fl.
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Syn: Courage; heroism; interpidity; gallantry; valor;
fearlessness; dauntlessness; hardihood; manfulness. See
Courage, and Heroism.
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Engravery
(gcide) | Engravery \En*grav"er*y\, n.
The trade or work of an engraver. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
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Gravery
(gcide) | Gravery \Grav"er*y\, n.
The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving.
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Either of picture or gravery and embossing. --Holland.
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Knavery
(gcide) | Knavery \Knav"er*y\, n.; pl. Knaveries.
1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery;
a knavish action.
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This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's
name. --Shak.
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2. pl. Roguish or mischievous tricks. --Shak.
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Proslavery
(gcide) | Proslavery \Pro*slav"er*y\, a. [Pref. pro- + slavery.]
Favoring slavery. -- n. Advocacy of slavery.
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Slavery
(gcide) | Slavery \Slav"er*y\, n.; pl. Slaveries. [See 2d Slave.]
1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection
of one person to the will of another.
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Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said
I, still thou art a bitter draught! --Sterne.
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I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this
state [Virginia] could see the policy of a gradual
abolition of slavery. It might prevent much future
mischief. --Washington.
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2. A condition of subjection or submission characterized by
lack of freedom of action or of will.
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The vulgar slaveries rich men submit to. --C. Lever.
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There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish,
-- the slavery of caste. --G. W. Cable.
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3. The holding of slaves.
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Syn: Bondage; servitude; inthrallment; enslavement;
captivity; bond service; vassalage.
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bravery
(wn) | bravery
n 1: a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain
without showing fear [syn: courage, courageousness,
bravery, braveness] [ant: cowardice, cowardliness]
2: feeling no fear [syn: fearlessness, bravery] [ant:
fear, fearfulness, fright] |
knavery
(wn) | knavery
n 1: lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
[syn: dishonesty, knavery] |
slavery
(wn) | slavery
n 1: the state of being under the control of another person
[syn: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom,
thraldom]
2: the practice of owning slaves [syn: slavery,
slaveholding]
3: work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay |
SLAVERY
(bouvier) | SLAVERY. The state or condition of a slave.
2. Slavery exists in most of the southern states. In Pennsylvania, by
the act of March, 1780, for the gradual abolition of slavery, it has been
almost entirely removed in Massachusetts it was held, soon after the
Revolution, that slavery had been abolished by their constitution; 4 Mass.
128; in Connecticut, slavery has been totally extinguished by legislative
provisions; Reeve's Dom. Bel. 340; the states north of Delaware, Maryland
and the river Ohio, may be considered as free States, where slavery is not
tolerated. Vide Stroud on Slavery; 2 Kent, Com. 201; Rutherf. Inst. 238.
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