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"The rule by nobles"

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The act of expressing profound and often bitter grief or lamentation, especially in a public or formal setting, for a loss that is perceived to be irrecoverable

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The branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge

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A politically organised community or major territorial unit ruled by a monarch