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Taine

[teyn; Fr. ten]
–noun
Hip⋅po⋅lyte A⋅dolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] , 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
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Taine   (tān, těn)   
French philosopher and historian who was a leading exponent of positivism and wrote the six-volume Origins of Contemporary France (1875-1893).
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