jpdb beta

reservation; putting on hold; deferment; withholding

1

Imperial bodyguard

4

vanguard; advance guard

1

stubbornly; firmly; determinedly; obstinately; resolutely; adamantly

1

reverence; veneration

1

while it may be true that; just because; nevertheless; not necessarily

1

an absolutist

1

reading (books)

1

priest; monk; bonze

1

universal; omnipresent; ubiquitous

1

general idea; concept; notion

1

ideology

1

to go through; to pierce; to penetrate; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out; to persist with

1

seer; pioneer; leading spirit; enlightened person

1

queer fellow; odd fellow; eccentric person; crank; oddball; freak

1

traitor (to one's country)

1

one's opinion

1

commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the barbarians (beginning in 794 CE); shogun; great, unifying leader

2

imperial command; government order

3

(public) duty

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all daimyo

3

Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867); Edo shogunate

3

to recognize; to recognise; to deem; to judge; to approve; to deem acceptable; to admit

2

and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism

2

paying back in installments (instalments); amortization plan (amortisation); gradual progression (oft. into an unwanted state); doing little by little; proceeding in a continual and vague fashion; gradually obscuring

2

diplomacy; selling (e.g. door-to-door); canvassing

4

same; identical; equal

1

bothersome; tiresome; bother to do

1

to change (with time, the ages, the seasons, etc.); to shift

1

evening deepens into night; the night wears on; night advances

2

both arguments; both opinions

2

confrontation; opposition; antagonism

3

single-minded (esp. personality or person); one-track mind

1

irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; (already) enough; considerably

1

to awaken; to arouse from sleep; to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of); to sober up; to dampen

3

to fade; to lose colour (color); to discolour (discolor)

2

Qin dynasty (of China; 221-207 BCE); Ch'in dynasty

1

to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house

2

this evening; tonight

1

head and legs; the body

1

especially; particularly; unusually; (arch.) additionally

1

without (doing); instead of; if (it) isn't done; if (one) doesn't do ...; if not ...; unless ...

1

to cut at; to slash at

2

heart; mind

1

to invade; to raid; to infringe; to encroach; to harm; to afflict

1

strength; power; energy; military strength; army; (number of) troops

3

separation; partition; detachment; segregation; isolation

2

punishment; judgement; judgment; decapitation

1

misgovernment

1

to understand; to appreciate; to interpret

2