constitution
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noun
- constitution (formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institutions; legal document de…
- constitutiona person's physical makeup or temperament, especially in respect of robustness
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- Une constitution vigoureuse le mit en état de résister à toutes les fatigues de corps et d'esprit qu'il éprouva dans sa rude carrière.A vigorous constitution put him in a position to resist all the physical and mental fatigues he experienced in his hard career.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I
- En vain voulut-on l'engager à se soumettre à la constitution unigenitus, ferme dans sa croyance comme le grand Arnault et le p. Quesnel, dont il avait été le disciple, il s'y refusa constamment.In vain were they willing to commit him to submit to the unigenitus constitution, firm in his belief as the great Arnault and Fr. Quesnel, of whom he had been a disciple, he constantly refused to do so.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I