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31 lines
1.6 KiB
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{
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"dybbuk":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a wandering soul believed in Jewish folklore to enter and control a living body until exorcised by a religious rite":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"That dybbuk had set up shop in her mother\u2019s stomach and had not wanted to leave. \u2014 Olga Tokarczuk, The New Yorker , 13 Sep. 2021",
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"Parents must work together to save their young daughter from a dybbuk , a malevolent spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Mar. 2021",
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"The dybbuk stops here regardless, and The Vigil is nothing if not determined to break out every trick in the malevolent-spirit-run-amuck book to spook, unsettle, and jar you. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 25 Feb. 2021",
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"When a little girl named Em unleashes a demon called the dybbuk \u2014the taker of children\u2014and becomes possessed, a series of scream-out-loud moments follow. 2. \u2014 Noelle Devoe, Seventeen , 8 Oct. 2014",
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"The 48-minute, nine-part ballet takes its musical and choreographic impetus from the notion of the dybbuk , a lost and restless spirit found in Central-European Jewish folklore. \u2014 Robert Greskovic, WSJ , 8 May 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1903, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Yiddish dibek , from Late Hebrew dibb\u016bq":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8di-b\u0259k"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065322",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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}
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} |