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proper noun
- A city in west France, in historical Brittany
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| Nassau |
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proper noun
- The capital of the Bahamas.
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| nihilism |
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noun
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(philosophy) Extreme scepticism, maintaining that nothing has a real existence.
- The rejection of all moral principles.
- A doctrine holding that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake independent of any constructive program or possibility.
- The belief that all endeavors are ultimately futile and devoid of meaning.
- Contradiction (not always deliberate) between behavior and espoused principle, to such a degree that all possible espoused principle is voided.
"...the bandmembers sweat hard enough to earn their pretensions, and maybe even their " (rock critic Dave Marsh, reviewing the band XTC's album Go)
- The deliberate refusal of belief to the point that belief itself is rejected as untenable.
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| Norman Conquest |
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proper noun (wikipedia, Norman Conquest of England)
Norman conquest, Conquest
- the invasion of England by the Normans in 1066 and their subsequent settlement
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