Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Full; complete; plenary.
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- adjective obsolete
Full .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The unpointed consonant-text can be made essentially clearer by writing "plene", i.e., by using the so-called quiescent letters (matres lectionis).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Consequently, her name appears in all the other sources in plene spelling: אביגיל, while here her name is blemished, and she appears in v. 32 in defective spelling: אביגל (JT Sanhedrin 2: 3, 20b).
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Haec dies sacrata in qua nova sunt gaudia mundo plene edita;
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Haec dies sacrata in qua nova sunt gaudia mundo plene edita;
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The second vowel is clearly an accented /e/, as it would otherwise never be written with plene spelling.
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The plene spelling to determine the e in the nominative is often seen.
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The plene spelling fo the first stem is then only a way of indicating a glottal stop + vowel a.
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The fact that we is interchanged with wi and is never written in plene spelling is a indication that the value of this vowel is suspicious.
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Quartum volant esse Mahomet, sanctum, et verum Dei nuncium ad seipsos missum, cum lege diuina in dicto libro plene contenta.
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Sed quando plene habent dominium super eos, si aliquid promiserunt eis nihil obseruant: sed quascunque possunt congrue occasiones inueniunt contra eos.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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