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spydom

noun

Etymology

From spy + -dom.

  1. derived from *speḱ-✻
  2. derived from *spehōną✻
  3. derived from *spehōn✻
  4. derived from espier
  5. inherited from spien
  6. suffixed as spydom — “spy + dom”

Definitions

  1. A group of spies

    • A paid spydom watched that Nazareth family — as it watched every other working-class family in the empire...

  2. The world of spies and espionage.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spydom. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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