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anabasis
/əˈnæbəsɪs/
noun 2
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3ADJ.
heroic, strenuous
ANABASIS + NOUN
moscow
PREP.
during, than
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noun
1
A military march up-country, especially that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia.
During the French anabasis to Moscow he entered our service, made himself a prodigious favorite with the whole imperial family, and even now is only in his twenty−second year.
‘I have a feeling that if we follow a scent of spring on the air with sufficient eagerness we’ll come to a south without snow more quickly than we think. Thalassa, thalassa. This is what the Greeks called an anabasis.’ They looked at him as if he were barmy.
2
The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.
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During the French anabasis to Moscow he entered our service, made himself a prodigious favorite with the whole imperial family, and even now is only in his twenty−second year.
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‘I have a feeling that if we follow a scent of spring on the air with sufficient eagerness we’ll come to a south without snow more quickly than we think. Thalassa, thalassa. This is what the Greeks ca
Wiktionary03
The Wordsworthian journey to the source […] is more of an amble than an anabasis or strenuous heroic quest.
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