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Ansinnen

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Ansinnen n (strong, genitive Ansinnens, plural Ansinnen)

  1. (higher register) request; imposition
    Synonym: Zumutung
    • 1909 [1901], Thomas Mann, chapter 4, in Buddenbrooks [] [1], Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, →OCLC, part 8, page 449:
      Mit aller Entschiedenheit, die er seiner Stimme zu geben vermocht, hatte er das Ansinnen zurückgewiesen; []
      He had refused with all the decisiveness he could put into his voice, to think of the proposition; []

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