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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.