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Can they stand rigid scrutiny? | rigid | {
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Can they stand rigid scrutiny? | scrutiny | {
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Shakespeare 's wit and wisdom, his profound insight into human nature, have stood the test of centuries. | Shakespeare | {
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But was he infallible in all things? | was | {
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But was he infallible in all things? | infallible | {
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But was he infallible in all things? | all | {
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But was he infallible in all things? | things | {
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What of his treatment of the Jew in The Merchant of Venice? | treatment | {
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What of his treatment of the Jew in The Merchant of Venice? | Jew | {
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The Jews had been banished from England in 1290 and were not permitted to return before 1655, when Shakespeare had been dead for thirty-nine years. | Jews | {
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The Jews had been banished from England in 1290 and were not permitted to return before 1655, when Shakespeare had been dead for thirty-nine years. | banished | {
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The Jews had been banished from England in 1290 and were not permitted to return before 1655, when Shakespeare had been dead for thirty-nine years. | England | {
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The Jews had been banished from England in 1290 and were not permitted to return before 1655, when Shakespeare had been dead for thirty-nine years. | not | {
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The Jews had been banished from England in 1290 and were not permitted to return before 1655, when Shakespeare had been dead for thirty-nine years. | permitted | {
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The Jews had been banished from England in 1290 and were not permitted to return before 1655, when Shakespeare had been dead for thirty-nine years. | return | {
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If any had escaped expulsion by hiding, they certainly would not frequent the market-place. | escaped | {
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If any had escaped expulsion by hiding, they certainly would not frequent the market-place. | expulsion | {
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If any had escaped expulsion by hiding, they certainly would not frequent the market-place. | frequent | {
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Shakespeare did not usually invent the incidents in his plays, but borrowed them from old stories, ballads, and plays, wove them together, and then breathed into them his spark of life. | Shakespeare | {
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Shakespeare did not usually invent the incidents in his plays, but borrowed them from old stories, ballads, and plays, wove them together, and then breathed into them his spark of life. | breathed | {
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"impart as if by breathing"
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Shakespeare did not usually invent the incidents in his plays, but borrowed them from old stories, ballads, and plays, wove them together, and then breathed into them his spark of life. | spark | {
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"spark%1:07:00::"
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Shakespeare did not usually invent the incidents in his plays, but borrowed them from old stories, ballads, and plays, wove them together, and then breathed into them his spark of life. | life | {
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Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | Rather | {
"name": "rather",
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Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | first-hand | {
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"received directly from a source"
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"firsthand%5:00:00:primary:00"
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Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | study | {
"name": "study",
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"study%1:04:00::"
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Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | Jewish | {
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]
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"of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion"
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"jewish%3:01:01::"
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Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | people | {
"name": "people",
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"the body of citizens of a state or country",
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"furnish with people"
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"people%1:14:00::"
] |
Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | delineation | {
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"representation by drawing or painting etc"
]
} | [
"a graphic or vivid verbal description"
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] |
Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | Shylock | {
"name": "person",
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"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
"a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party"
]
} | [
"a human being"
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"person%1:03:00::"
] |
Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | stems | {
"name": "stem",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed",
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"cylinder forming a long narrow part of something",
"the tube of a tobacco pipe",
"fr... | [
"grow out of, have roots in, originate in"
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"stem%2:42:00::"
] |
Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | collection | {
"name": "collection",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"several things grouped together or considered as a whole",
"a publication containing a variety of works",
"request for a sum of money",
"the act of gathering something together"
]
} | [
"a publication containing a variety of works"
] | [
"collection%1:10:00::"
] |
Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | Italian | {
"name": "italian",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a native or inhabitant of Italy",
"the Romance language spoken in Italy",
"of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language"
]
} | [
"of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language"
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"italian%3:01:00::"
] |
Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | stories | {
"name": "story",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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"a structure consisting of a room ... | [
"a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events"
] | [
"story%1:10:00::"
] |
Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | published | {
"name": "publish",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"put into print",
"prepare and issue for public distribution or sale",
"have (one's written work) issued for publication"
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} | [
"put into print"
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"publish%2:36:01::"
] |
Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | written | {
"name": "write",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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"record data on a ... | [
"produce a literary work"
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"write%2:36:00::"
] |
Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | almost | {
"name": "almost",
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]
} | [
"(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but"
] | [
"almost%4:02:00::"
] |
Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | two | {
"name": "two",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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"one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots",
"being one more than one"
]
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Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | centuries | {
"name": "century",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a period of 100 years",
"ten 10s"
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"a period of 100 years"
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"century%1:28:00::"
] |
Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier. | earlier | {
"name": "earlier",
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] | [
"earlier%4:02:00::"
] |
He could learn at second hand from books, but could not thus capture the real Jewish spirit. | learn | {
"name": "learn",
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"learn%2:31:00::"
] |
He could learn at second hand from books, but could not thus capture the real Jewish spirit. | second hand | {
"name": "second_hand",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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"hand marking seconds on a timepiece",
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"an intermediate person; used in the phrase `at second hand'"
] | [
"second_hand%1:18:00::"
] |
He could learn at second hand from books, but could not thus capture the real Jewish spirit. | books | {
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"a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)"
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He could learn at second hand from books, but could not thus capture the real Jewish spirit. | not | {
"name": "not",
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]
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"not%4:02:00::"
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He could learn at second hand from books, but could not thus capture the real Jewish spirit. | thus | {
"name": "thus",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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"thus%4:02:01::"
] |
He could learn at second hand from books, but could not thus capture the real Jewish spirit. | capture | {
"name": "capture",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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"a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field",
"any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle",
"the act of taking of a pers... | [
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He could learn at second hand from books, but could not thus capture the real Jewish spirit. | real | {
"name": "real",
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"an old small silver Spanish coin",
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He could learn at second hand from books, but could not thus capture the real Jewish spirit. | Jewish | {
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"sense_definitions_list": [
"of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion"
]
} | [
"of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion"
] | [
"jewish%3:01:01::"
] |
He could learn at second hand from books, but could not thus capture the real Jewish spirit. | spirit | {
"name": "spirit",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"the vital principle or animating force within living things",
"the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people",
"a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character",
"any incorporeal super... | [
"the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people"
] | [
"spirit%1:26:00::"
] |
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes : `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''. | Harris J. Griston | {
"name": "person",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
"a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party"
]
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"a human being"
] | [
"person%1:03:00::"
] |
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes : `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''. | writes | {
"name": "write",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"produce a literary work",
"communicate or express by writing",
"have (one's written work) issued for publication",
"communicate (with) in writing",
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"produce a literary work"
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"write%2:36:00::"
] |
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes : `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''. | not | {
"name": "not",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"negation of a word or group of words"
]
} | [
"negation of a word or group of words"
] | [
"not%4:02:00::"
] |
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes : `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''. | word | {
"name": "word",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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"a brief statement",
"information about recent and important events",
"a verbal command for action",
"an exchange of views on some topic",
"a promise",
"a word is a string of bits stored... | [
"a unit of language that native speakers can identify"
] | [
"word%1:10:00::"
] |
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes : `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''. | spoken | {
"name": "speak",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"express in speech",
"exchange thoughts; talk with",
"use language",
"give a speech to",
"make a characteristic or natural sound"
]
} | [
"express in speech"
] | [
"speak%2:32:00::"
] |
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes : `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''. | Shylock | {
"name": "person",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
"a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party"
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} | [
"a human being"
] | [
"person%1:03:00::"
] |
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes : `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''. | expect | {
"name": "expect",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"regard something as probable or likely",
"consider obligatory; request and expect",
"look forward to the probable occurrence of",
"consider reasonable or due",
"look forward to the birth of a child",
"be pregnant with"
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"regard something as probable or likely"
] | [
"expect%2:31:00::"
] |
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes : `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''. | real | {
"name": "real",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"any rational or irrational number",
"the basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos",
"an old small silver Spanish coin",
"being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; ; ; ; ; ; - Longfellow",
"no less ... | [
"being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; ; ; ; ; ; - Longfellow"
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"real%3:00:00::"
] |
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes : `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''. | Jew | {
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"sense_definitions_list": [
"a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties"
]
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"a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties"
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"jew%1:18:00::"
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He took the story of the pound of flesh and had to fasten it on someone. | took | {
"name": "take",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property",
"the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption",
"carry out",
"require (time or space)",
"take somebody somewhere",
"get into ... | [
"receive willingly something given or offered"
] | [
"take%2:40:05::"
] |
He took the story of the pound of flesh and had to fasten it on someone. | story | {
"name": "story",
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"a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program",
"a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events",
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"a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events"
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"story%1:10:00::"
] |
He took the story of the pound of flesh and had to fasten it on someone. | pound | {
"name": "pound",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"16 ounces avoirdupois",
"the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence",
"a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy",
"the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters",
"the basic unit of money ... | [
"16 ounces avoirdupois"
] | [
"pound%1:23:09::"
] |
He took the story of the pound of flesh and had to fasten it on someone. | flesh | {
"name": "flesh",
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"the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat",
"alternative names for the body of a human being",
"a soft moist part of a fruit",
"remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture"
]
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"alternative names for the body of a human being"
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"flesh%1:08:01::"
] |
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