rising sunn.

Brit.

/ˌrʌɪzɪŋ ˈsʌn/, U.S.

/ˌraɪzɪŋ ˈsən/

Forms: see rising adj. and sun n.¹ Also with capital initials (esp. in sense 4, land (also country, island, kingdom, etc.) of the rising sun at Phrases, rising sun flag n. at Compounds).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rising adj., sun n.¹

Etymology: < rising adj. + sun n.¹With sense 2 compare orient n. and its etymon classical Latin oriēns . In sense 4a with allusion to the origin of the name of the country, Japanese Nihon , Nippon : see discussion at Nippon n. and compare land of the rising sun at Phrases. With sense 4b compare Japanese Kyokujitsu (in e.g. Kyokujitsu-ki : see rising sun flag n. at Compounds).

1. The sun as it appears or emerges above the horizon. Cf. rising adj. 3c, setting sun n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sun > [noun] > at specific time or position

suneOE

rising sun1557

setting sun1560

noon-sun1601

midnight sun1787

noon1858

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. X.i^v I neuer saw the risyng sunne but with my wepyng eyen.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 551 Spires and Pinnacles..Which now the Rising Sun guilds with his beams.

1740 J. Dyer Ruins of Rome 2 The rising sun Flames on the Ruins.

1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 100 At the reanimating appearance of the rising sun, nature again revives.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 296 The beams of the rising sun, which glanced on the first broken waves of the fall.

1922 F. P. Grove Over Prairie Trails iv. 116 The snow where it stood up highest became suffused with a rose-red tint from the rising sun.

1964 W. A. Anderson Angel Hudson Bay (new ed.) 54 The warmth of the rising sun made the snow soft and sticky.

2007 C. Stross Halting State (2008) 129 Somewhere north of Castle Greyhawk and east of the rising sun.

2. With the. The east. Frequently literary and poetic.

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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > East > [noun]

eastwardeOE

eastc1175

sunrisinga1382

orientc1385

sun-springa1400

eastwarda1450

eastwards?1574

sunristc1600

rising sun1613

aurora1617

morn1647

moonrise1728

morning-land1838

dawning1879

1613 R. Zouche Dove sig. D1 Po and Danow towards the rising Sunne, Sothward the Rhosne, the Rhene doth Northward runne.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 109 Nor to the North, nor to the Rising Sun, Nor Southward..But..to the West.

1737 S. Humphreys tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature (ed. 2) II. vi. 106 A Wall that fronts the rising Sun, is more proper for..Pears, whose Colour we have an Inclination to heighten. A Western Exposure has likewise its Merit, but a Northern is the least favourable of all.

1852 J. M. Stanley Portraits N. Amer. Indians xxvii. 21 I have made a fire out of the dry elm... I have put one chunk toward the rising sun, one toward the setting sun, one toward the north, and one toward the south.

1960 M. Grant World of Rome ii. ii. 60 This fate, claims another Oracle, will be brought upon Rome by a king from the Rising Sun, by whom the west will be enslaved.

2001 Amer. Motorcyclist July 30/2 With the Crossroads Rally situated pretty close to that dividing line, the direction you want to be going is toward the rising sun.

3. A depiction of the sun appearing above the horizon, spec. as a decorative motif. Frequently attributive. Cf. sense 4b.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > specific emblems, badges, or cognizances > national

ravenOE

thistle1488

red cross1523

St George's cross1548

Britannia1605

red rose1618

British Lion1687

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American eagle1782

rising sun1787

white horse1814

Bird of Freedom1825

Union Jack1847

maple leaf1860

meatball1919

red star1920

hammer and sickle1921

chakra1947

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > others

popinjay1322

serpent1388

moss-work1600

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frostwork1631

damask branch1634

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lacework1675

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branch-work1702

escallop-shella1706

festoon work1712

ovum1728

bricking1760

rising sun1787

ram's horn1842

linen-pattern1845

linen-scroll1854

wheel-rood1862

primal1875

patch ornament1878

tree1879

wheel-cross1882

skeuomorph1889

linenfold1891

taotie1915

boteh1917

pelta1935

starburst1953

quilling1972

towel-pattern-

1787 J. Madison Notes Deb. Federal Convention 17 Sept. in Papers (1840) III. 1624 Doctor Franklin, looking towards the President's chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed..that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun.

1895 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Mystery Witch-face Mt. 185 Some [quilts] were of the ‘log cabin’ and ‘rising sun’ variety.

1935 J. C. Lincoln Cape Cod Yesterdays 109 I ducked my tousled head under the..‘rising-sun comforter’ and fell asleep in spite of the racket.

1983 Jewish Chron. 27 May 15/3 The cupped-hand emblem replaces the now familiar rising sun logo [of the Jewish Welfare Board].

2000 B. Cornwell Archer's Tale (2005) 317 The King still looked young, and his hair and beard were as gold as the rising sun on his standard.

a. With capital initials and the. Japan. Cf. land (also country, island, kingdom, etc.) of the rising sun at Phrases.Particularly after the 1930s, often with negative connotations, esp. by association with the (former) Japanese military emblem (see rising sun flag n. at Compounds), alluding to Japanese militarism and expansionism during the period up to 1945.

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1839 C. W. King in C. W. King & G. T. Lay Claims of Japan & Malaysia upon Christendom I. 166 The same reasons will shield the gentlemen of our party, whose particular aim it was to..leave behind some proofs that Americans can feel for and alleviate the sufferings of the people of the Rising Sun.

1897 Far East 20 Mar. 83/2 The children of the Rising Sun.

1937 Washington Post 26 Nov. 9/2 If the Rising Sun continues to ascend to effective hegemony over eastern Asia.., our own outlook will be black.

1984 Washington Post 29 July c2/2 Mobs of students..systematically smashed Japanese cars, storefronts of Japanese-related businesses and any other visible signs of the swiftly growing economic inroads of the Rising Sun.

2007 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 4 Sept. 95 Malaysia must beat Japan today, and..the men from the Rising Sun will surely dig in deep in defence.

b. A stylized representation of the sun as the emblem of Japan. Frequently attributive. Cf. sense 3.Recorded earliest in rising sun flag n. at Compounds.

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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > others

Samian letter1616

A1651

Tetragrammaton1656

arrow1744

arrowhead1832

wind1847

scarlet letter1850

sun wheel1865

sacred axe1866

rising sun1868

crow's foot1871

Easter rabbit1881

hexagram1882

sun sign1882

Easter bunny1900

Staffordshire knot1908

sinsigna1914

tectiform1921

padma1954

smiley face1957

happy face1971

lexigram1973

emoticon1988

smiley1989

1868 London & China Tel. 23 Mar. 146/1 The ships engaged were a large two-funnelled steamer flying the rising sun flag.

1898 J. Morris What will Japan Do? 100 Originally the Russians had been numerically stronger than the Japanese, but the lack of numbers was compensated by the superior quality of the ships flying the Rising Sun ensign.

1913 Catholic Press (Sydney) 9 Oct. 48/2 The Japanese call their country ‘Dai-Nippon’, or ‘Land of the Rising Sun’..and they have a rising sun on their flag.

1942 Olean (N.Y) Times Herald 11 Sept. 4/1 Hard by our stern, two Mitsubushi 97's whirred so close the Rising Sun on their fuselage stood out momentarily as huge red discs.

1976 Sun (Lowell, Mass.) 23 Mar. 2/1 The actor was wearing..a Rising Sun headband and a white scarf for his flying jacket, the outfit worn by the Kamikaze suicide pilots.

2013 Shanghai Daily (Nexis) 7 Aug. The military flag, featuring a rising sun in the center blazoned with red rays, was used by the Japanese military when it invaded Asia.

Phrases

land (also country, island, kingdom, etc.) of the rising sun: used to denote a country, region, etc., associated with the east or the orient; spec. (now the usual sense) (a name for) Japan; see also Empire of the Rising Sun n. at empire n. and adj. Phrases 1. [With reference to Japan after Japanese Nippon-koku, lit. ‘land of the origin of the sun’ (see Nippon n.). With the Chinese forms mentioned in quots. a1773 and 1805 compare discussion at Japan n.]

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1693 T. Walker in tr. N. Knatchbull Annot. New Test. sig. A5 Knatchbull a diff'rent Conquest has obtain'd, Old Greece subdu'd, and Palestine regain'd; Has o're the Empire of the Romans run, And view'd the Regions of the rising Sun.

a1773 A. Butler Lives Saints (1780) XII. 38 Niphon..in their language signifies the East or Origin of the Sun. From the Chinese name Gepuanque, that is, kingdom of the rising Sun, Europeans have formed the word Japan.

1805 Asiatick Researches 8 332 It is described as the island of the rising sun, which is the meaning of the words Japan or Gepuen.

1826 R. Morrison Parting Memorial xii. 152 In the distant regions beyond the Ganges, and in the land of the ‘rising sun’, children do not enjoy those spiritual advantages which children in this country enjoy.

1850 Illustr. London News 31 Aug. 183/2 I gazed long at this venerable importation from the land of the rising sun. He sat as motionless as though he had been a merchant of Bagdad or Balsora.

1907 Trans. & Proc. Japan Soc. 8 314 In these days..when a man may wander where he will through the lovely islands of the Rising Sun, it seems almost incredible that..in 1858 there was not a living Englishman who could say that he had ever set foot in Japan.

1996 Herald (Glasgow) 15 Apr. 17 A fifth of the company's turnover emanates from the country of the Rising Sun.

2005 Washington Post 28 July c11/1 Sudoku..is a logic puzzle that has long been enjoyed in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Compounds

rising sun flag n. (a name for) any of various naval or military flags of Japan, typically comprising a red disc surrounded by sixteen rays; spec. the ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the flag of the Imperial Japanese Army (now historical); cf. sun flag n. at sun n.¹ Compounds 5a.Also occasionally with reference to the national flag of Japan, comprising a simple red disc on a white field. [Perhaps after Japanese Kyokujitsu-ki, lit. ‘rising-sun sun flag’, denoting the Japanese military flag only (although this is apparently first attested slightly later: 1875 in an abbreviated form); the Japanese names of the national flag are (officially) Nisshōki, lit. ‘sun emblem flag’ (1877) and (colloquially) Hinomaru (1877, short for hi no maru no hata, lit. ‘sun's circle flag’).]

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1868 [see sense 4b].

1943 Times 20 Sept. 3/3 The honour of hauling down the Rising Sun flag which was flying over the hill that dominates the town.

1967 J. W. Peterson Orders & Medals Japan & Associated States 1 The national Rising Sun flag is white with a red disk and the military flag has a red sun with red rays on a white ground.

1995 J. Vardaman Japan from A to Z (1997) 56 The so-called Rising Sun flag with sixteen rays is a military service flag (still used today by Japan's Self-Defense Forces).

2009 D. Chan in L. Hjorth & D. Chan Gaming Cultures & Place in Asia-Pacific viii. 147 A mass virtual world protest over what was believed to be the flagrant display of a symbol of Japanese militarism, the Rising Sun flag, within the game.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rising sun
释义	rising sunn. Brit. /ˌrʌɪzɪŋ ˈsʌn/, U.S. /ˌraɪzɪŋ ˈsən/ Forms: see rising adj. and sun n.¹ Also with capital initials (esp. in sense 4, land (also country, island, kingdom, etc.) of the rising sun at Phrases, rising sun flag n. at Compounds). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rising adj., sun n.¹ Etymology: < rising adj. + sun n.¹With sense 2 compare orient n. and its etymon classical Latin oriēns . In sense 4a with allusion to the origin of the name of the country, Japanese Nihon , Nippon : see discussion at Nippon n. and compare land of the rising sun at Phrases. With sense 4b compare Japanese Kyokujitsu (in e.g. Kyokujitsu-ki : see rising sun flag n. at Compounds). 1. The sun as it appears or emerges above the horizon. Cf. rising adj. 3c, setting sun n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sun > [noun] > at specific time or position suneOE rising sun1557 setting sun1560 noon-sun1601 midnight sun1787 noon1858 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. X.i^v I neuer saw the risyng sunne but with my wepyng eyen. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 551 Spires and Pinnacles..Which now the Rising Sun guilds with his beams. View more context for this quotation 1740 J. Dyer Ruins of Rome 2 The rising sun Flames on the Ruins. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 100 At the reanimating appearance of the rising sun, nature again revives. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 296 The beams of the rising sun, which glanced on the first broken waves of the fall. 1922 F. P. Grove Over Prairie Trails iv. 116 The snow where it stood up highest became suffused with a rose-red tint from the rising sun. 1964 W. A. Anderson Angel Hudson Bay (new ed.) 54 The warmth of the rising sun made the snow soft and sticky. 2007 C. Stross Halting State (2008) 129 Somewhere north of Castle Greyhawk and east of the rising sun. 2. With the. The east. Frequently literary and poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > East > [noun] eastwardeOE eastc1175 sunrisinga1382 orientc1385 sun-springa1400 eastwarda1450 eastwards?1574 sunristc1600 rising sun1613 aurora1617 morn1647 moonrise1728 morning-land1838 dawning1879 1613 R. Zouche Dove sig. D1 Po and Danow towards the rising Sunne, Sothward the Rhosne, the Rhene doth Northward runne. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 109 Nor to the North, nor to the Rising Sun, Nor Southward..But..to the West. View more context for this quotation 1737 S. Humphreys tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature (ed. 2) II. vi. 106 A Wall that fronts the rising Sun, is more proper for..Pears, whose Colour we have an Inclination to heighten. A Western Exposure has likewise its Merit, but a Northern is the least favourable of all. 1852 J. M. Stanley Portraits N. Amer. Indians xxvii. 21 I have made a fire out of the dry elm... I have put one chunk toward the rising sun, one toward the setting sun, one toward the north, and one toward the south. 1960 M. Grant World of Rome ii. ii. 60 This fate, claims another Oracle, will be brought upon Rome by a king from the Rising Sun, by whom the west will be enslaved. 2001 Amer. Motorcyclist July 30/2 With the Crossroads Rally situated pretty close to that dividing line, the direction you want to be going is toward the rising sun. 3. A depiction of the sun appearing above the horizon, spec. as a decorative motif. Frequently attributive. Cf. sense 4b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > specific emblems, badges, or cognizances > national ravenOE thistle1488 red cross1523 St George's cross1548 Britannia1605 red rose1618 British Lion1687 shamrock1712 leek1714 American eagle1782 rising sun1787 white horse1814 Bird of Freedom1825 Union Jack1847 maple leaf1860 meatball1919 red star1920 hammer and sickle1921 chakra1947 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > others popinjay1322 serpent1388 moss-work1600 flame1602 frostwork1631 damask branch1634 mascaron1664 lacework1675 swash1680 branch-work1702 escallop-shella1706 festoon work1712 ovum1728 bricking1760 rising sun1787 ram's horn1842 linen-pattern1845 linen-scroll1854 wheel-rood1862 primal1875 patch ornament1878 tree1879 wheel-cross1882 skeuomorph1889 linenfold1891 taotie1915 boteh1917 pelta1935 starburst1953 quilling1972 towel-pattern- 1787 J. Madison Notes Deb. Federal Convention 17 Sept. in Papers (1840) III. 1624 Doctor Franklin, looking towards the President's chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed..that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun. 1895 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Mystery Witch-face Mt. 185 Some [quilts] were of the ‘log cabin’ and ‘rising sun’ variety. 1935 J. C. Lincoln Cape Cod Yesterdays 109 I ducked my tousled head under the..‘rising-sun comforter’ and fell asleep in spite of the racket. 1983 Jewish Chron. 27 May 15/3 The cupped-hand emblem replaces the now familiar rising sun logo [of the Jewish Welfare Board]. 2000 B. Cornwell Archer's Tale (2005) 317 The King still looked young, and his hair and beard were as gold as the rising sun on his standard. 4. a. With capital initials and the. Japan. Cf. land (also country, island, kingdom, etc.) of the rising sun at Phrases.Particularly after the 1930s, often with negative connotations, esp. by association with the (former) Japanese military emblem (see rising sun flag n. at Compounds), alluding to Japanese militarism and expansionism during the period up to 1945. ΚΠ 1839 C. W. King in C. W. King & G. T. Lay Claims of Japan & Malaysia upon Christendom I. 166 The same reasons will shield the gentlemen of our party, whose particular aim it was to..leave behind some proofs that Americans can feel for and alleviate the sufferings of the people of the Rising Sun. 1897 Far East 20 Mar. 83/2 The children of the Rising Sun. 1937 Washington Post 26 Nov. 9/2 If the Rising Sun continues to ascend to effective hegemony over eastern Asia.., our own outlook will be black. 1984 Washington Post 29 July c2/2 Mobs of students..systematically smashed Japanese cars, storefronts of Japanese-related businesses and any other visible signs of the swiftly growing economic inroads of the Rising Sun. 2007 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 4 Sept. 95 Malaysia must beat Japan today, and..the men from the Rising Sun will surely dig in deep in defence. b. A stylized representation of the sun as the emblem of Japan. Frequently attributive. Cf. sense 3.Recorded earliest in rising sun flag n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > others Samian letter1616 A1651 Tetragrammaton1656 arrow1744 arrowhead1832 wind1847 scarlet letter1850 sun wheel1865 sacred axe1866 rising sun1868 crow's foot1871 Easter rabbit1881 hexagram1882 sun sign1882 Easter bunny1900 Staffordshire knot1908 sinsigna1914 tectiform1921 padma1954 smiley face1957 happy face1971 lexigram1973 emoticon1988 smiley1989 1868 London & China Tel. 23 Mar. 146/1 The ships engaged were a large two-funnelled steamer flying the rising sun flag. 1898 J. Morris What will Japan Do? 100 Originally the Russians had been numerically stronger than the Japanese, but the lack of numbers was compensated by the superior quality of the ships flying the Rising Sun ensign. 1913 Catholic Press (Sydney) 9 Oct. 48/2 The Japanese call their country ‘Dai-Nippon’, or ‘Land of the Rising Sun’..and they have a rising sun on their flag. 1942 Olean (N.Y) Times Herald 11 Sept. 4/1 Hard by our stern, two Mitsubushi 97's whirred so close the Rising Sun on their fuselage stood out momentarily as huge red discs. 1976 Sun (Lowell, Mass.) 23 Mar. 2/1 The actor was wearing..a Rising Sun headband and a white scarf for his flying jacket, the outfit worn by the Kamikaze suicide pilots. 2013 Shanghai Daily (Nexis) 7 Aug. The military flag, featuring a rising sun in the center blazoned with red rays, was used by the Japanese military when it invaded Asia. Phrases land (also country, island, kingdom, etc.) of the rising sun: used to denote a country, region, etc., associated with the east or the orient; spec. (now the usual sense) (a name for) Japan; see also Empire of the Rising Sun n. at empire n. and adj. Phrases 1. [With reference to Japan after Japanese Nippon-koku, lit. ‘land of the origin of the sun’ (see Nippon n.). With the Chinese forms mentioned in quots. a1773 and 1805 compare discussion at Japan n.] ΚΠ 1693 T. Walker in tr. N. Knatchbull Annot. New Test. sig. A5 Knatchbull a diff'rent Conquest has obtain'd, Old Greece subdu'd, and Palestine regain'd; Has o're the Empire of the Romans run, And view'd the Regions of the rising Sun. a1773 A. Butler Lives Saints (1780) XII. 38 Niphon..in their language signifies the East or Origin of the Sun. From the Chinese name Gepuanque, that is, kingdom of the rising Sun, Europeans have formed the word Japan. 1805 Asiatick Researches 8 332 It is described as the island of the rising sun, which is the meaning of the words Japan or Gepuen. 1826 R. Morrison Parting Memorial xii. 152 In the distant regions beyond the Ganges, and in the land of the ‘rising sun’, children do not enjoy those spiritual advantages which children in this country enjoy. 1850 Illustr. London News 31 Aug. 183/2 I gazed long at this venerable importation from the land of the rising sun. He sat as motionless as though he had been a merchant of Bagdad or Balsora. 1907 Trans. & Proc. Japan Soc. 8 314 In these days..when a man may wander where he will through the lovely islands of the Rising Sun, it seems almost incredible that..in 1858 there was not a living Englishman who could say that he had ever set foot in Japan. 1996 Herald (Glasgow) 15 Apr. 17 A fifth of the company's turnover emanates from the country of the Rising Sun. 2005 Washington Post 28 July c11/1 Sudoku..is a logic puzzle that has long been enjoyed in the Land of the Rising Sun. Compounds rising sun flag n. (a name for) any of various naval or military flags of Japan, typically comprising a red disc surrounded by sixteen rays; spec. the ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the flag of the Imperial Japanese Army (now historical); cf. sun flag n. at sun n.¹ Compounds 5a.Also occasionally with reference to the national flag of Japan, comprising a simple red disc on a white field. [Perhaps after Japanese Kyokujitsu-ki, lit. ‘rising-sun sun flag’, denoting the Japanese military flag only (although this is apparently first attested slightly later: 1875 in an abbreviated form); the Japanese names of the national flag are (officially) Nisshōki, lit. ‘sun emblem flag’ (1877) and (colloquially) Hinomaru (1877, short for hi no maru no hata, lit. ‘sun's circle flag’).] ΚΠ 1868 [see sense 4b]. 1943 Times 20 Sept. 3/3 The honour of hauling down the Rising Sun flag which was flying over the hill that dominates the town. 1967 J. W. Peterson Orders & Medals Japan & Associated States 1 The national Rising Sun flag is white with a red disk and the military flag has a red sun with red rays on a white ground. 1995 J. Vardaman Japan from A to Z (1997) 56 The so-called Rising Sun flag with sixteen rays is a military service flag (still used today by Japan's Self-Defense Forces). 2009 D. Chan in L. Hjorth & D. Chan Gaming Cultures & Place in Asia-Pacific viii. 147 A mass virtual world protest over what was believed to be the flagrant display of a symbol of Japanese militarism, the Rising Sun flag, within the game. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1557
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