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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Tooke (tŏŏk),USA pronunciation n. (John) Horne (hôrn),USA pronunciation 1736–1812, English politician and philologist.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Tooke /tʊk/ n - John Horne, original name John Horne. 1736–1812, British radical, who founded (1771) the Constitutional Society to press for parliamentary reform: acquitted (1794) of high treason. He also wrote the philological treatise The Diversions of Purley (1786)
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