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n. - The quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin.

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  • The only group of foreigners to have the remotest claim to "nativeness" were the The Samanids (819-999), who were the first in centuries to use Farsi as an official...
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  • Terence, and, above all, the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the, so called, silver and brazen ages; but with even those of the Augustan æra: and,...
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