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111Подъём Чикаго — (англ. Raising of Chicago)  комплекс инженерно технических и строительных работ по постепенному повышению уровня грунта в городе Чикаго (США), осуществлявшийся в течение 1850 1860 х гг. В процессе реализации проекта уровень улиц в… …
112despondingly — See despond. * * * …
113spend- — To make an offering, perform a rite, hence to engage oneself by a ritual act. O grade from *spond . 1. Suffixed form *spond eyo . sponsor, spouse; despond, espouse, respond, from Latin spondēre, to make a solemn promise, pledge, betroth. 2.… …
114Pilgrim’s Progress — a religious novel written between 1678 and 1684 by John Bunyan. It is an allegory (= a story in which the characters and events are symbols representing other things, such as truths, fears and human qualities) about a man’s journey through life… …
115allegory — /al euh gawr ee, gohr ee/, n., pl. allegories. 1. a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another. 2. a symbolical narrative: the allegory of… …
116despondency — /di spon deuhn see/, n. state of being despondent; depression of spirits from loss of courage or hope; dejection. Also, despondence. [1645 55; DESPOND + ENCY] Syn. melancholy, gloom. See despair. Ant. joy. * * * …
117despondent — despondently, adv. /di spon deuhnt/, adj. feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health. [1690 1700; < L despondent (s. of despondens), prp. of despondere. See DESPOND, ENT] Syn.… …
118Pilgrim's Progress — an allegory (1678) by John Bunyan. * * * ▪ work by Bunyan religious allegory by the English writer John Bunyan, a symbolic vision of the good man s pilgrimage through life, at one time second only to the Bible in popularity. Part I (1678),… …
119nadir — noun /ˈneɪdɪə(ɹ),ˈneɪdɪɹ/ a) The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand. when we are Nadyr to the Sunne, we have no ſhadow… …
120Ough (orthography) — Ough is a letter sequence often seen in words in the English language. In Middle English, where the spelling arose, it was probably pronounced with a back rounded vowel and a velar fricative, e.g., [oːx] or [uːx]. It is by far the sequence of… …
