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Addressee

One to whom anything is addressed.

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Receiver 76% connected

One who takes or receives in any manner.

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Recipient 76% connected

A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a stil…

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Accost 74% connected

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Accost 74% connected

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

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Address 74% connected

To aim; to direct.

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Address 74% connected

To aim; to direct.

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-ee unknown · 78% connection

A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to…

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Ad hominem unknown · 78% connection

A phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.

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Affable adjective · 78% connection

Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable.

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Allottee noun · 78% connection

One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made.

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Apopemptic adjective · 78% connection

Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apoplectic songs or hymns.

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Archdeacon noun · 78% connection

In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with indepe…

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Ask verb · 78% connection

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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Assignee noun · 78% connection

(law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)

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Audita querela unknown · 78% connection

A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which…

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Aulic noun · 78% connection

The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the cha…

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Banter verb · 78% connection

To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting…

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Bema noun · 78% connection

A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.

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Blasphemy noun · 78% connection

An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, Go…

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Circular adjective · 78% connection

Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular let…

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Compellative noun · 78% connection

The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.

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Congratulate verb · 78% connection

To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to.

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Consignment noun · 78% connection

That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance.

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Deafness noun · 78% connection

Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.

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