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Synonymisches Handwörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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…in an abridged form as Synonymisches Handwörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1802; “Dictionary of Synonyms in the German Language”) and was republished in its 17th edition in 1910 with English, French, Italian, and Russian equivalents.
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