donatien a françois sade

noun

Do·na·tien Al·phonse Fran·çois

[daw-na-syan al-fawns frahn-swa] , Comte de (Marquis de Sade) 1740–1814, French soldier and novelist, notorious for his paraphilia.

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Sade (sɑːd)

—n
	Comte Donatien Alphonse François de (dɔnasjɛ̃ alfɔ̃s frɑ̃swa də), known as the Marquis de Sade. 1740--1814, French soldier and writer, whose exposition of sexual perversion gave rise to the term sadism

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sadhe, sade or tsade (ˈsɑːdiː, ˈtsɑːdiː, Hebrew ˈtsadiː, ˈsɑːdiː, ˈtsɑːdiː, Hebrew ˈtsadiː, ˈsɑːdiː, ˈtsɑːdiː, Hebrew ˈtsadiː)

—n
	the 18th letter in the Hebrew alphabet (צ or, at the end of a word ץ), transliterated as s or ts and pronounced more or less like English s or ts with pharyngeal articulation

sade, sade or tsade

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tsade, sade or tsade

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