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  • 121nullity — noun (plural ties) Date: 1570 1. a. the quality or state of being null; especially legal invalidity b. (1) nothingness; also insignificance (2) a mere nothing ; nonentity …

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  • 122relegate — transitive verb ( gated; gating) Etymology: Latin relegatus, past participle of relegare, from re + legare to send with a commission more at legate Date: 1599 1. to send into exile ; banish 2. assign: as a. to assign to a place of insignificance… …

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  • 123vain — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, empty, futile, from Latin vanus more at wane Date: 14th century 1. having no real value ; idle, worthless < vain pretensions > 2. marked by futility or ineffectualness ; unsuccessful,&#8230; …

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  • 124small — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English smal, from Old English smæl; akin to Old High German smal small, Greek mēlon small domestic animal Date: before 12th century 1. a. having comparatively little size or slight dimensions b. lowercase 2. a.&#8230; …

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  • 125Ambracia — Ambracia, occasionally Ampracia (Greek: ancient Ἀμπρακία; modern Αμβρακία), was an ancient Corinthian colony, situated about 7 miles from the Ambracian Gulf in Greece, on a bend of the navigable river Arachthos (or Aratthus), in the midst of a&#8230; …

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  • 126Abba Arika — (175–247) (Talmudic Aramaic: tm. אבא אריכא) (born Abba bar Aybo) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora (commentator on the Oral Law) of the 3rd century who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic&#8230; …

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  • 127Acts of Union 1707 — The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed during 1706 and 1707 by the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland to put into effect the terms of the Treaty of Union that had been agreed on July 22, 1706, following&#8230; …

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  • 128Benjamin Tucker — Infobox Writer name = Benjamin Tucker |thumb|right|Benjamin Ricketson Tucker imagesize = caption = pseudonym = birthname = birthdate = April 17, 1854 birthplace = deathdate = June 22, 1939 deathplace = Monaco occupation = writer nationality =&#8230; …

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