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demesne n

A lord’s chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor’s own use

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obliquity n

The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation. Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality. The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism

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