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A Compendium of Words and Expressions Used Today That Were Used During the English Regency, 1811-1820 (Give or Take A Few Years Either Way.) The list now includes the language of Federal America (late 18th and early 19th centuries).
Really Regency
B.A. Sweeney, Copyright 2007-2009
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Would you consider "buy [him/]her off" as a candidate?
From Mansfield Park Chapter 40:
"In every argument with her mother, Susan had in point of reason the advantage, and never was there any maternal tenderness to buy her off."
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