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  "pronunciations": {
    "phonetic": [
      "\u02c8pr\u025bfr\u0259b\u0259l",
      "\u02c8pr\u025bf\u0259r\u0259b\u0259l"
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        "lang": "Audio (US)",
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  "meansorg": {
    "etymologies": [
      "From French pr\u00e9f\u00e9rable."
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    "typelist": [
      {
        "name": "Adjective",
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            "mean": "Better than some other option; preferred.\n1756,  George Benson,  \u201cThe Pr\u00e6face. To the First Edition.\u201d, in  The History of the First Planting of the Christian Religion: Taken from the Acts of the Apostles, and Their Epistles. Together with the Remarkable Facts of the Jewish and Roman History; Which Affected the Christians, Within This Period., the second edition, volume the first, London:   J. Waugh and W. Fenner, page v:This work has been the care and \u017ftudy of \u017fome years; as far as health, and other affairs, would permit. For, this appeared, to the author, of as much greater importance, than any other hi\u017ftory whatever; as morality and religion are more excellent, than any temporal affairs; and the hi\u017ftory of true religion, pr\u00e6ferrable to that of impo\u017ftures and delu\u017fions.\n2007,  Ted Honderich,  On political means and social ends, \u2192ISBN, page 94:It is not to the point that an inequality of material goods, at high levels, may not be preferable to an equality of material goods at a lower level, precisely for such reasons as self-respect."
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