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Search phrase: local

Plays

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
A Midsummer Night's Dream	MND V.i.17	A local habitation and a name.	a locall habitation, / And a name.
Troilus and Cressida	TC IV.v.244	That I may give the local wound a name,	That I may giue the locall wound a name,

Poems

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Glossary

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birth-child	native, local inhabitant
climatures	regions, locality, part of the world
domestic	internal, to do with home affairs, local
leet	local court of justice, manorial court
provincial	subject to local church jurisdiction
scot and lot	[type of local taxation] in full, thoroughly
Strachy	[unknown meaning] possibly a local house or institution

Thesaurus

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inhabitant, local	birth-child
jurisdiction, subject to local church	provincial
justice, local court of	leet
local	domestic
local church jurisdiction, subject to	provincial
local inhabitant	birth-child
locality	climatures

Themes and Topics

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Here, there, and where	... whereout tc iv v 245 i may give the local wound a name / and make distinct the v...
London	...ii v 39 [unknown meaning] possibly a local house or institution strand ...
Scottish	...captain jamy is given a few features of localized pronunciation the distinctiveness ...
Welsh	...e exceptions there is usually just one localized feature per word the most notic...

Words Families

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Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
LOCAL	BASIC	local adj

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