lessing

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Definition

  1. noun German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781)
  2. noun English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919)

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Synonyms

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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