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Concept: Care. [Vigilance.]
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quis custodiet istos custodes? "care will kill a cat" [Wither]; ni bebas aqua que no veas; "O polished perturbation! Golden care!" [Henry IV]; "the
Antonyms: neglect
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Concept: Difficulty.
Category: 1. Conditional antagonism
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"ay there's the rub" [Hamlet]; hic labor hoc opus [Vergil]; things are come to a pretty pass, ab inconvenienti; ad astra per aspera; acun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a
Antonyms: facility
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Concept: [Failure of expectation] Disappointment.
Category: 2. To the Future
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the mountain brought forth a mouse; parturiunt montes; nascitur ridiculus mus [Horace]; diis aliter visum, the bubble burst; one's countenance falling.
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Concept: Fear.
Category: 3. Prospective Affections
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ante tubam trepidat; horresco referens, one's heart failing one, obstupui steteruntque comae et vox.faucibus haesit [Vergil].
Antonyms: courage
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Concept: Pain.
Category: 1. Passive Affections
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"the iron entered into our soul"; haeret lateri lethalis arundo [Vergil]; one's heart bleeding; "down, thou climbing sorrow" [Lear]; "mirth cannot move a soul in agony" [Love's Labor's Lost]; nessun maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria; "sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering
Antonyms: pleasure
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Concept: Penitence.
Category: 3. Moral conditions
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peccavi; erubuit; salva res est [Terence]; Tu l'as voulu, Georges Dandin; "and wet his grave with my repentant tears" [Richard III].
Antonyms: impenitence
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Concept: Pity.
Category: 2. Special Sympathetic Affections
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one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco [Vergil]; "a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind" [Garrick]; onor di bocca assai giova e poco
Antonyms: pitilessness
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Concept: Poverty.
Category: 4. Monetary Relations
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zonam perdidit; "a penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree" [Lady Nairne]; a pobreza no hay verguenza; "he that is down can fall no lower" [Butler]; poca roba poco pensiero; "steeped . . . in poverty to the very lips" [Othello];
Antonyms: wealth
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