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• Very early in the war she commenced her work for the soldiers, and did not discontinue it until some months after the last battle was fought, completing fully her four years of service, and making her name a synonym for active, judicious, earnest work from the beginning to the end Amy M. Bradley is a native of East Vassalboro', Kennebec County, Maine, where she was born September 12th, 1823, the youngest child of a large family. —  Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience
• He wrote occasionally a word on the blackboard, when he wished to explain or impress upon the memory a term or a synonym,--as, for instance, "temporarily," and the words "soften," "mitigate," "assuage,"--and corrected such mistakes in translation as "guess to" for "guess at," and "declaration" for "explanation The second division of this first class was in German history. —  In and Around Berlin
• Whereat Mr. Chance, sitting next her, suggested that, as a synonym of opportunity, possibly he might stand in its stead I detest such speeches, they are properly termed soft, for they certainly are mushy—lacking in stamina—fiber of any sort. —  How to Cook Husbands
• We are, of course, referring to the Spencerian system, in which the word "Absolute" is used as a synonym for what we should call the Deity; but, argues the Spencerian, since "Absolute is that which exists out of all relation," [3] whereas "even intelligence or consciousness itself is conceivable only as a relation," it follows that "the Absolute cannot be thought of as conscious." —  Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
• EXOTIC FORMS 159 V. MELODY, HARMONY, AND MODULATION 165 GLOSSARIAL INDEX 207 CHAPTER I RHYTHM Rhythm, in its simplest sense, is measured motion; but by various natural extensions of meaning the word has come to be used almost as a synonym of regularity of variation. —  The Principles of English Versification

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