Grimm

[ grim ]

/ grɪm /

noun

Ja·kob Lud·wig Karl

[yah-kop -loot-vikh kahrl, lood-], /ˈyɑ kɒp ˈlut vɪx kɑrl, ˈlud-/, 1785–1863, and his brother Wil·helm Karl

[vil-helm], /ˈvɪl hɛlm/, 1786–1859, German philologists and folklorists.

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"You will proceed with the case to the end, Mr. Grimm," he instructed abruptly.
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Diderot himself told me several times at the beginning that Grimm in whom I had so much confidence, was not my friend.
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Grimm gives a tale precisely similar, with the exception that it is a hare and not a fox who is deceived by the ruse.
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Were there not something different from mere accident here, Grimm's Law would be a delusion.
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"The Keg of Butter" combines two of the Grimm stories, 2, 189.
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Grimm

/ (ɡrɪm) /

noun

Jakob Ludwig Karl (ˈjaːkɔp ˈluːtvɪç karl), 1785–1863, and his brother, Wilhelm Karl (ˈvɪlhɛlm karl), 1786–1859, German philologists and folklorists, who collaborated on Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812–22) and began a German dictionary. Jakob is noted also for his philological work Deutsche Grammatik (1819–37), in which he formulated the law named after him

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