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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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In this context, we miss Castiglione's Book of the Courtier and the work of Melanchthon (the mentor of Languet and his Continental friends): upon Philip, at least, their influence was arguably greater than that of Tacitus.
Languet was chief among a number of older men who acted as mentors to Sidney; he would alternately idolize and grow weary of them, for this preux chevalier was famously moody and bad-tempered, threatening to "thrust [his] dagger" into a servant he suspected of reading his private correspondence and challenging the Earl of Oxford to a duel when the earl called him a "puppy" in a public quarrel.
Unlike such contemporaries as Hubert Languet (1549-1623), Montaigne generally dismisses the idea that a subject can claim a freedom to resist lawful authority.
 
 
 
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