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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation south
  • abbreviation southern

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Examples

  • They are, in the bodies we denominate from them, only a power to produce those sensations in us: and what is sweet, blue, or warm in idea, is but the certain bulk, figure, and motion of the insensible parts, in the bodies themselves, which we call so.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • As for "rascality," I never had but one case of anything approaching to what you call so.

    A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856

  • “Well,” hesitated Fancy, “I have heard you called so.

    Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

  • “I hope you will not be angry with me; I would not offend you, sir, for the world; but, indeed, I could not bear to hear him called so.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • There is no doubt that they are gaining the right to have it called so.

    FRIENDSHIP RALLY FOR WILLIAMS 1975

  • February used to be "Soul-grove," but I have never heard it called so.

    In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • 'I am madly in love with this child, if you call her so.'

    The Dictator Justin McCarthy 1871

  • I have had that cat five years, and when he was first given me, by my brother Jack, who was younger then than he is now, and had been reading Captain Parry's _Voyages_, gave him that name, and would have him called so.

    The Wide, Wide World Susan Warner 1852

  • Captain Parry's Voyages, gave him that name, and would have him called so.

    The Wide, Wide World Susan Warner 1852

  • What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

    Essays — First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

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