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Forraign means Obsolete spelling of foreign..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Obsolete spelling of foreign..
discarded into a Forraign Service, for a pretty shadow of Exilement
Whence comes it, that in Christendome there has been, almost from the time of the Apostles, such justling of one another out of their places, both by forraign, and Civill war? such stumbling at every little asperity of their own fortune, and every little eminence of that of other men?
[T]he Soveraign Power, and Iuriſdiction both in the Roman and German Empires, and in moſt forraign Chriſtian Kingdoms, was, and yet is, in the Senate, People, Parliaments, States, Dyets; yet this is no empeachment at all to their royall Supremacies, or Titles of Supreme Heads, and Governours, within their own Dominions, [...]
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Forraign means Obsolete spelling of foreign..
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discarded into a Forraign Service, for a pretty shadow of Exilement
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