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- noun French psychotherapist who claimed that if one imagined one was getting better, one would get better (1857-1926)
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Examples
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Occasionally she coue phlegm and then, embarrassed, turned and spat it on the gi Avenger gave her his jacket and Birch his shirt.
Briar Rose Yolen, Jane 1991
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¶ Tourne as hym lest bothe drye & whete. coue {n} terfete
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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Then our Master shot his boare-spear, and strooke him in the head, and made him to take the water, and swimme into a coue fast by, where we killed him, and brought him aboord.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And toure the coue, that cloyde your duds, [39] upon the chates to trine. [
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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For all your Duds are bingd awaste, [3] the bien coue hath the loure. [
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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To mill each Ken, let coue bing then, [27] through ruffemans, lague or launde. [
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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For God kept this diftribution and order in difpofing the coue* uant of his mercy, that how much the nearer it drew on in proceife of time to y ful performance thereof, with fo much greater encreafc - mentes of reuelation he did day by day more brightly {hew it.
ruzuzu commented on the word coue
I'm starting to see Weirdnet's charms.
April 5, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word coue
Iroquoisy.
April 5, 2011