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Search phrase: important

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
All's Well That Ends Well	AW III.vii.21	Now his important blood will naught deny	Now his important blood will naught denie,
The Comedy of Errors	CE V.i.138	At your important letters, this ill day	At your important Letters this ill day,
Cymbeline	Cym IV.iv.19	And ears so cloyed importantly as now,	And eares so cloyd importantly as now,
Hamlet	Ham III.iv.109	Th' important acting of your dread command?	Th'important acting of your dread command?
King Lear	KL IV.iv.26	My mourning and importuned tears hath pitied.	My mourning, and important teares hath pittied:
Much Ado About Nothing	MA II.i.62	be not wooed in good time. If the Prince be too important,	be not woed in good time: if the Prince bee too important,
Troilus and Cressida	TC II.iii.168	He makes important. Possessed he is with greatness,	He makes important; possest he is with greatnesse,
Troilus and Cressida	TC V.i.78	I cannot, lord; I have important business,	I cannot Lord, I haue important businesse,
Twelfth Night	TN I.v.185	Come to what is important in't. I forgive you the	Come to what is important in't: I forgiue you the

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business	important matter, serious concern
concern	be important to, be the concern of
dear	important, major, significant
deep	solemn, weighty, important
grave	important, dignified, serious
great	important, weighty, serious
high	important, major, special
highly	greatly, crucially, in an important way
huge	great, important, of high rank
idle	trifling, unimportant, trivial
immoment	unimportant, trifling, of no consequence
important	urgent, pressing, demanding, importunate
importantly	with matters of importance
importless	trivial, unimportant, insignificant
mean	of low rank, inferior in position, less important
mean	unworthy, insignificant, unimportant
mighty	influential, important, leading
nice	trivial, unimportant, slight
profound	weighty, important
purveyor	steward sent ahead to make preparations for the arrival of someone important
serious	formal, important, solemn
unvalued	unimportant, of no position, insignificant

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Attention signals	... catching someone’s attention is an important interaction strategy and in shakespear...
Comparison	...er than thou art &rsquo lastly it is important to note that when an inflected and a p...
Discourse markers	... certain words and phrases play an important role in maintaining the dynamic of conv...
Ships	... first two scenes of the tempest are an important location for nautical terminology ...
Swearing	...iven of frequency in the list so it is important to note that some items are very common...
Verb forms	...are not entirely understood context is important -(e)th is used in many formal proclama... ... 76) the demands of the metre are also important -eth giving the poet the option of an ...
Britain [outside London]
French	...(adj ) mw i iv 50 grand great important grandeur (n f ) h5 v ii 25...
Frequently Encountered Words (FEW)	...smoother reading of the texts it is important to note that a number of these words ar...

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Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
IMPORTANT	BASIC	import n, import v, importance n, importancy n, important adj, importantly adv, importing adj
IMPORTANT	NOT	importless adj

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