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- She acknowledged it to be very fitting, that every little social commonwealth should dictate its own matters of discourse; and hoped, ere long, to become a not unworthy member of the one she was now transplanted into.Chapter 6 (9% in)
- "Since the idea had been started in the very quarter which ought to dictate, he had no scruple," he said, "in confessing his judgement to be entirely on that side.Chapter 2 (46% in)
There are no more uses of "dictate" in Persuasion.
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