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Why women’s rights in China are regressing
After 21 rejections, "Lord of the Flies" was finally issued in 1954 as his first published book, and it remains his most popular.
It portrays a group of proper British schoolboys who, when marooned on a deserted island by a plane crash during a global atomic war, lose their societal inhibitions and regress into blood-curdling tribal savagery.
Why women's right in China are regressing?
societal
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Pronunciation: /səˈsʌɪɪt(ə)l
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adjective
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social
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Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊʃ(ə)l
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adjective
noun
Back to top- 2 (the social) British • informal short for social security. not everyone’s on the social and taking drugs
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Origin
late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin socialis 'allied', from socius 'friend'.regress
Syllabification: re·gressverb
Pronunciation: /riˈgres
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noun
Pronunciation: /ˈrēˌgres
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Origin
late Middle English (as a noun): from Latin regressus, from regredi 'go back, return', from re- 'back' + gradi 'walk'.blood-curdling
(blŭd'kûrd'lĭng)
adj.
Causing great horror; terrifying.
bloodcurdlingly blood'cur'dling·ly adv.
proper
(prŏp'ər)
adj.
- Characterized by appropriateness or suitability; fitting: the proper knife for cutting bread; not a proper moment for a joke.
- Called for by rules or conventions; correct: the proper form for a business letter.
- Strictly following rules or conventions, especially in social behavior; seemly: a proper lady; a proper gentleman.
- Belonging to one; own: restored to his proper shape by the magician.
- Characteristically belonging to the being or thing in question; peculiar: an optical effect proper to fluids.
- Being within the strictly limited sense, as of a term designating something: the town proper, excluding the suburbs.
- Ecclesiastical. For use in the liturgy of a particular feast or season of the year.
- Mathematics. Of or relating to a subset of a given set when the set has at least one element not in the subset.
- Worthy of the name; true: wanted a proper dinner, not just a snack.
- Out-and-out; thorough: a proper whipping.
Thoroughly: beat the eggs good and proper.
n. Ecclesiastical also Proper
The parts of the liturgy that vary according to the particular feast or season of the year.
[Middle English propre, from Old French, from Latin proprius.]
properly prop'er·ly adv.properness prop'er·ness n.
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