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frank adj. (1 is obs.; 2 now somewhat archaic)
1. unrestrained All'sW. II. iii. 61 “thy election.”
2. liberal, bounteous All'sW. I. ii. 20, Cor. III. i. 129, Oth. III. iv. 45, Sonn. iv. 4.
3. open, undisguised Oth. I. iii. 38, III. iii. 195; outspoken H5 I. ii. 244.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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