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Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but--more frequently than not --struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. Eleanor though the daughter of a king and brought up in the greatest luxury det...
The effect is intensified by two further fronted adverbials. These are elliptical complex adverb phrases:so slow[ly]/[That] Your Breath has time to straighten;[so slowly that] Your Brain [has time] to bubble Cool.The telegraphic style reduces the phrases to their most powerful elements – our...
Amazingly, about two-thirds of the English vocabulary comes from Romance languages, particularly French, Latin, Spanish, and Italian. (1) It’s also influenced by Germanic languages such as Old English, German, Dutch, Gothic, and Scandinavian. Approximately one-fourth of the modern English vocabul...
Many words ofPersianorigin have made their way into theEnglish languagethrough different, often circuitous, routes. Some of them, such as "paradise", date to cultural contacts between thePersiansand the ancient Greeks or Romans and through Greek and Latin found their way to English. Persian as ...
Latinexāminātiōn-(stem ofexāminātiō). Seeexamine,-ation Middle Englishexaminacioun1350–1400 ex•am′i•na′tion•al,adj. 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridgedobservation. Examination,inspection,scrutinyrefer to a looking at something. Anexaminationusually means a careful noting of details:...
Etymology: 12thCentury: via Old French from Latinreligiōfear of the supernatural, piety, probably fromreligāreto tie up, fromre-+ligāreto bind 'religion' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations): In Lists:Causes of arguments,PET Vocabulary List - R,more.....
Yes, William Chaucer, the author of the Canterbury Tales is considered to be the greatest writer in the Middle English language. What are the main characteristics of Middle English? The inclusion of a large number of French and Latin words into the vocabulary of Middle English is the main cha...
German, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, French, Arabic, Armenian, Afrikaans, Hungarian, Yiddish, Indian, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Malayan, to a different extent, took part in the process of the transfer of the Turkic words into English. The main language from which the borrowings were made,...
This name derives from the Latin word "nectar," signifying the sweetness and divine quality of these fruits. Beyond the common terms, specific varieties of peaches have their own intriguing names. "Donut peach," for instance, refers to a type with a distinctive flat, round sha...