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moiety
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Definition:a portion or share of something
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I generally contrived to reserve a moiety of this bounteous repast for myself; but the remainder I was invariably obliged to part with.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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I asked him if he knew to what height of improvement he had brought the plantation, and whether he thought it might be worth looking after; or whether, on my going thither, I should meet with any obstruction to my possessing my just right in the moiety.
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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Which he stood seiz'd of, to the conqueror:
Against the which, a moiety competent
Was gaged by our king; which had return'd
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Upon second thought, however, she opens her purse-strings and delivers the specie. Now this, I say, is a diddle minute—for one entire moiety of the sum borrowed has to be paid to the gentleman who had the trouble of performing the insult, and who had then to stand still and be thrashed for performing it.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: Diddling (1843)
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