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								Its sacred tenets include protecting women's purity (namus), the right to personal revenge (badal), the sanctity of the guest (melmastia) and sanctuary (nanawateh). 
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								They were waked only to growl "Damnamus -- namus," and so made an end. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878 
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								National Missing and Unidentified Persons System - database is given, including its Web site, www. namus.gov. 
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								National Missing and Unidentified Persons System - database is given, including its Web site, www. namus.gov. 
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								National Missing and Unidentified Persons System - database is given, including its Web site, www. namus.gov. 
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								The family are originally from Elbistan, south-eastern Turkey, and adhered to the code of namus, or honour, practised by many rural communities there. 
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								Bayrakci namus bayrak sereftir Bayrakci oncudur Bayrakci yuceltendir Bayrakci birlik bayrak beraberliGin teminatidir Bayrakci tanitan bayrak gururun en ust duzeye Cikartan bayrak yasatan kavramlara Bayrakci denir. unknown title 2009 
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								Mehmet killed his daughter in order to restore the namus breached when she ran off to live with Unal, the trial heard. 
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								Didziule uzuojauta tiem kurie nukentejo, ir visiem kitiem, tai ivyko didziule katastrofa i nuotraukas negaliu net ziurevi kaip ugnis viska sluoja kas po kojok, zmones varge state namus ir per sekunde nebera. FAZED 2008 
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								Consulem III. etiam prodit namus restitutoris Trajani, quem explicabi - mus infra in numis restitutionum I, Cae - saris. Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792 
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