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adj- Firstborn.

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Usage examples (10)
  • Heidegger makes use of the 'own' meaning of 'eigne' to read the sense of the verb 'ereignen' as to make one's own appearance, to appropriate.
  • Wie das Gestirn, Ohne Hast, Aber ohne Rast, Drehe sich jeder Um die eigne Last.
  • Where an affize of mortdancefier lies not for wmBer fmjne againft Baflard eigne.
  • Dieser Mensch, der von Gott recht und wohl geschaffen war, ist durch seine eigne Schuld in die Suende gefallen, und hat das ganze menschliche Geschlecht mit sich in...
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