qualifier
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verb
to qualifyof a sports team, etc.) (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage
to characterize, to consider
to call, to label
to call oneselfusually undeservedly
to characterizeto be characteristic of
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- La conversation tomba tout naturellement sur l’incarcération du pauvre homme. m. Bonacieux, qui ignorait que d’Artagnan eût entendu sa conversation avec l’inconnu de Meung, raconta à son jeune locataire les persécutions de ce monstre de m. de Laffemas, qu’il ne cessa de qualifier pendant tout son récit du titre de bourreau du cardinal et s’étendit longuement sur la Bastille, les verrous, les guichets, les soupiraux, les grilles et les instruments de torture.The conversation naturally fell on the poor man's incarceration. m. Bonacieux, who did not know that d'Artagnan would have heard his conversation with the unknown Meung, told his young tenant about the persecutions of this monster of m. of Laffemas, whom he continued to describe throughout his account as the cardinal's executioner and extended at length over the Bastille, locks, windows, sighs, grills and instruments of torture.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
- L'abbé Fénélon blâma hautement, dans son sermon du jour de Pâques, la conduite du gouverneur général, qu'il qualifia de tyrannique et de violente; il ne s'arrêta pas là, il recueillit dans la ville des signatures à une remontrance au roi contre lui.Father Fénélon highly blamed in his Easter sermon the conduct of the governor general, whom he called tyrannical and violent; he did not stop there; he collected signatures in the city to a reverence to the king against him.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I
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