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For the "Peace" of the church had been broken-- broken, as [191] Marius could not but acknowledge, on the responsibility of the emperor Aurelius himself, following tamely, and as a matter of course, the traces of his predecessors, gratuitously enlisting, against the good as well as the evil of that great pagan world, the strange new heroism of which this singular message was full.

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  1. verb Past participle of break.
  2. adjective Forcibly separated into two or more pieces; fractured: a broken arm; broken glass.
  3. adjective Sundered by divorce, separation, or desertion of a parent or parents: children from broken homes; a broken marriage.
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  • I was convinced that the it has better suction than my vacuum cleaner and it does all the other stuff the salesman said it did, including spray painting and blow off leaves from gutters, but I wasn't ready to spend $2,000.00 on it and even after the salesman's manager came over and try to make me feel bad about what he called my broken vacuum cleaner I did NOT give in to the pressure.
  • I said the physical symmetry for differential mode currents is broken, which is absolutely true if one conductor is 3 milliwavelengths from the plate and the other is 6 milliwavelengths from the plate. —  eHam.net News
  • Overlooking this fact is known as the broken-window fallacy. —  New York Sun - All Articles
  • Obama has rejected public financing, calling the system "broken" -- a decision that frees him to continue raising money for November. —  CNN.com
  • If all the bones in one of your hands are broken, that is. —  Planet Debian
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  1. Pp. of break; from Middle English broken, often shortened to broke, from Anglo-Saxon brocen, from brecan, break: see break.
 

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