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period

/ˈpɪɚ.i.əd/ interjection C2
  1. That's final; that's the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence); end of story. (US) · I know you don't want to go to the dentist, but your teeth need to be checked, period!· I'm the GOAT, point blank period!
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It had given him a disgust to his business and to his residence in a small market town; and, quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge; where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 17 · B2
Bennet to find comfort in staying at home at any period of her life.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 113 · B2
The next was in these words:--“‘I do not pretend to regret anything I shall leave in Hertfordshire except your society, my dearest friend; but we will hope, at some future period, to enjoy many returns of that delightful intercourse we have known, and in the meanwhile may lessen the pain of separation by a very frequent and most unreserved correspondence.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 135 · B2
But may we not hope that the period of future happiness, to which Miss Bingley looks forward, may arrive earlier than she is aware, and that the delightful intercourse you have known as friends will be renewed with yet greater satisfaction as sisters?
Pride and Prejudice, p. 136 · B2

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