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raison
noun(rai-son d'être)
reason or justification for existence
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French noun phrase(rai-son d'être)
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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French quotation from {i_link|Pascal|Pascal:b}(rai-son d'être)
the heart has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of

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