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The following 3 entries include the term raison.
raison d'être
noun: reason or justification for existence
le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point
French quotation from Pascal: the heart has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of
raison d'état
French noun phrase: reason of state : justification for a nation's foreign policy on the basis that the nation's own interests are primary
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