effeminacy
effeminacy
•radiancy
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immediacy, intermediacy
•expediency • idiocy • saliency
•resiliency • leniency
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incipiency, recipiency
•recreancy • pruriency • deviancy
•subserviency • transiency • pliancy
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buoyancy, flamboyancy
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fluency, truancy
•constituency • abbacy • embassy
•celibacy • absorbency
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incumbency, recumbency
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ascendancy, intendancy, interdependency, pendency, resplendency, superintendency, tendency, transcendency
•candidacy
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presidency, residency
•despondency • redundancy • infancy
•sycophancy • argosy • legacy
•profligacy • surrogacy
•extravagancy • plangency • agency
•regency
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astringency, contingency, stringency
•intransigency • exigency • cogency
•pungency
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convergency, emergency, insurgency, urgency
•vacancy • piquancy • fricassee
•mendicancy • efficacy • prolificacy
•insignificancy • delicacy • intricacy
•advocacy • fallacy • galaxy
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jealousy, prelacy
•repellency • valency • Wallasey
•articulacy • corpulency • inviolacy
•excellency • equivalency • pharmacy
•supremacy • clemency • Christmassy
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illegitimacy, legitimacy
•intimacy • ultimacy • primacy
•dormancy • diplomacy • contumacy
•stagnancy
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lieutenancy, subtenancy, tenancy
•pregnancy
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benignancy, malignancy
•effeminacy • prominency
•obstinacy • pertinency • lunacy
•immanency
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impermanency, permanency
•rampancy • papacy • flippancy
•occupancy
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archiepiscopacy, episcopacy
•transparency • leprosy • inerrancy
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flagrancy, fragrancy, vagrancy
•conspiracy • idiosyncrasy
•minstrelsy • magistracy • piracy
•vibrancy
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adhocracy, aristocracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, democracy, gerontocracy, gynaecocracy (
US gynecocracy), hierocracy, hypocrisy, meritocracy, mobocracy, monocracy, plutocracy, technocracy, theocracy
•accuracy • obduracy • currency
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curacy, pleurisy
•confederacy • numeracy
•degeneracy • itinerancy • inveteracy
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illiteracy, literacy
•innocency • trenchancy • deficiency
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fantasy, phantasy
•intestacy • ecstasy • expectancy
•latency • chieftaincy • intermittency
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consistency, insistency, persistency
•instancy • militancy • impenitency
•precipitancy • competency
•hesitancy • apostasy • constancy
•accountancy • adjutancy
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consultancy, exultancy
•impotency • discourtesy
•inadvertency • privacy
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irrelevancy, relevancy
•solvency • frequency • delinquency
•adequacy • poignancy
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Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 9/16/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...thesis appears to be that Orestes and Iphigenia are suffering...aged girl-child, while Orestes (Simon Keenlyside) repeatedly...Imbrailo (Scythian). Orestes is a role Imbrailo might...Dictionary of Classical Mythology'
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Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 7/13/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...prostration, a universal derangement which painted events and non-events in the colouring of mythology. In the hallucinatory melancholia of Orestes, Aeschylus painted the rage of the Furies following and tormenting their victim: "Behold them...
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Faults Suggest a High Calling for Delphi Priestesses
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/4/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Oedipus to stay away from his mother, told Orestes to go ahead and kill his, caused Croesus to...warnings and advice figure prominently in Greek mythology. After the Trojan War, when Orestes asked whether he should seek vengeance on his...
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Don't shake our tree
Newspaper article from: The Independent Weekly; 4/25/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...part tragedy about the curse on the House of Atreus-finds its tragic hero, Orestes, tortured by a chorus of vengeful spirits for killing his mother. In mythology, the chorus is called the Furies: They're the central metaphor for The Rosebuds...
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THE FURIES OF TED HUGHES.
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 9/20/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...original tongues. Certainly Greek mythology continued to be a font of inspiration...bearers] Agamemnon's son, Orestes, avenges his father by slaying...Athens at the altar of Apollo, Orestes' protector. Athene institutes...jury, adjudicates by lifting Orestes' blood guilt, then transforms...
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'Electra' can still provide a shock.(LIFE - ARTS ETC.)(THEATER)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 4/26/2005; 700+ words
; ...source of solace is her brother Orestes (Ted Feldman), whom she sent...of another figure from Greek mythology, Cassandra. The two women...of Pylades, the caretaker of Orestes. His recounting of Orestes' supposed death in a chariot...
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Sanity through symbolism
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 10/20/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...frightening figures in Greek mythology. When the Athenian playwright...chorus on the trail of his hero, Orestes. They are Orestes's punishment for killing his...describe, in today's terms, Orestes's perception that he was being...
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Superb songs of Troy
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/28/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...she plans her vengeance, commissions Orestes (tenor) to kill Pyrrhus and is rewarded...glorious performance. And Bruce Ford, the Orestes, is an unsurpassable Ros-sini tenor...late-20th- century Wagner: a grand mythology overwhelmed by an even grander orchestra...
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ELEKTRA POWERFUL WORK GETS STATE PREMIERE AT VIRGINIA OPERA.(DAILY BREAK)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 1/23/2002; 700+ words
; ...lover, Aegisthus. Elektra's brother, Orestes, has been sent away from the palace...have been treated worse than servants. Orestes comes back and murders Klytemnestra and...creation as well as from classical Greek mythology, although the latter grow predominant...
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La Belle Helene at the Barbican
Magazine article from: Musical Opinion; 3/1/2001; ; 491 words
; ...clever satire on Second Empire morals based on Classical Greek mythology. The otherwise all-French cast was headed by our own Felicity...Todorovitch was delightfully outrageous as the wild-child Orestes and Laurent Naouri as Agamemnon led the bunch of royal heavies...
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Orestes
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
Orestes In Greek mythology, Orestes was the prince who avenged the murder of his father, King Agamemnon of Mycenae, by killing his own mother, Clytemnestra. Orestes' sisters Iphigenia and Electra play important roles in his story...
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Electra
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Electra In Greek mythology , the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra . She helped her brother Orestes avenge their father's death by plotting to kill Clytemnestra and their stepfather Aegisthus.
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Furies
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
Furies In Greek and Roman mythology, the Furies were female spirits...of the Furies' pursuit of Orestes, who had killed his mother...of Mycenae. In Eumenides, Orestes' act was depicted as just...persuaded the Furies to allow Orestes to be tried by the Areopagus...
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belly button
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...centre of the universe or at least of the globe. In Greek mythology, Zeus, seeking to discover the precise centre of the earth...which Heracles toiled was an omphalos, as was the shrine where Orestes took sanctuary. Similar views have been prominent in other...
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Iphigenia
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
Iphigenia In Greek mythology, Iphigenia appears in legends about the Trojan War*. She was killed...Artemis's temple there. A later myth says that Iphigenia's brother Orestes traveled to Tauris to search for a statue of Artemis. He was captured...
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