To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman.
I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
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1 to talk or write about something or someone, usually quickly and without saying very much or giving details
★mention [countable usually singular, uncountable] noun when someone mentions something or someone in a conversation, piece of writing etc
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In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.
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1 if the moon eclipses the sun, the sun cannot be seen behind the moon, and if the Earth eclipses the moon, the moon cannot be seen because the Earth is between the sun and the moon
if one type of person or thing predominates in a group or area, there are more of this type than any other:
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It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler.
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very similar to something:
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All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind.
