Pronunciation of the English word gratuitous.
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1. | The aggression was provoked by all those gratuitous insults. | |
2. | As Paul says, it is really perfectly gratuitous ("es ist im grunde reine willkur") to call the case we have in German (and Old English) a dative, for besides the functions of the dative it fulfils the functions of the old locative, ablative, and instrumental. |