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gratuitous Law given or made without receiving any value in return How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The attack must have all the shocking senselessness of gratuitous blasphemy. The self-sacrifice of a father or mother, or self-sacrifice with the possibility of a reward, is more comprehensible than gratuitous self-sacrifice, and therefore seems less deserving of sympathy and less the result of free will. The time and the manner of his asking her appeared like a gratuitous insult to me; and I could have wept with pure vexation. |
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