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languet

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lan·guet  (lnggwt, lng-gwt)
n.
One that functions or is shaped like a tongue.

[Middle English, from Old French languete, diminutive of langue, tongue, from Latin lingua; see dgh- in Indo-European roots.]

languet [ˈlæŋgwɛt]
n
Rare anything resembling a tongue in shape or function
[from Old French languette, diminutive of langue tongue]


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Unlike such contemporaries as Hubert Languet (1549-1623), Montaigne generally dismisses the idea that a subject can claim a freedom to resist lawful authority.
7) One specific source for the transmission of those assumptions to Sidney was his longtime mentor and friend, Hubert Languet (1518-81).
It was the 'corruption of human nature' that led Languet and Mornay to conclude that kings must be restricted by contracts with their subjects; William of Orange, urging resistance to Philip II, observed that it is 'in the nature of sovereign power not to brook any contradiction'; in 1579 a Dutch tract against Philip remarked on the failings that lie in 'the nature of kings,' or at least in the 'nature' of 'most .
 
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