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Contraposition Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

loss


Could you please tell me what 'no loss' and 'plainly' mean respectively?
I couldn't get help from dictionaries.
  

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When someone is a credit to the community, it is because they are liked and do good things. The opposite type of person would not be missed if they were to die. ”) When a person that you don’t really look at (such as the bus driver or the person who sits beside you on a bus trip) actually says something to you, you focus on them and ‘actually see them’.

— Wilpeter

  • When someone is a credit to the community, it is because they are liked and do good things.
  • The opposite type of person would not be missed if they were to die.
  • ”) When a person that you don’t really look at (such as the bus driver or the person who sits beside you on a bus trip) actually says something to you, you focus on them and ‘actually see them’.
  • This describes what Dumbledore is experiencing: ‘seeing him plainly’ (identifying him as a real person instead of as a thing).
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When someone is a credit to the community, it is because they are liked and do good things. The opposite type of person would not be missed if they were to die. In the case of the dementor, he would not be missed is said as, “he is no loss!” (Grammatically, we would say, “he is of no loss to the world.”)

When a person that you don’t really look at (such as the bus driver or the person
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