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palaeo-
palaeo- For most words beginning thus, use paleo-.... Read more |
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Gematria
Gematria A form of numerology. In Jewish mysticism gematria was the study of Hebrew letters in association with numbers. The method was used to discover hidden meanings in Hebrew words. Prominent words could be systematically converted into numbers and linked to other words with the same... Read more |
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Technophobia
Technophobia BIBLIOGRAPHY The word technophobia derives from the Greek words techne, an art or craft, and phobia, fear. As Hal Hellman notes, this word is most often used to refer to fear: “fear of technology, fear of science, fear of change in general” (Hellman 1976, p. xi). The... Read more |
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crony
crony a close friend or companion. Recorded from the mid 17th century (originally as Cambridge university slang) the word comes from Greek khronios ‘long-lasting’ (here used to mean ‘contemporary’), from khronos ‘time’.The word gained a high profile in the... Read more |
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Seven Words from the Cross
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Society of the Divine Word
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Last words that seek to make perpetrator into victim
...that Timothy McVeigh should have...well-known words of the poem by William...Henley was a Victorian poet who...composing jingoist poems about the...these other poems in that it...unconquerable. The poem ... |
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The message of mass murder: Man can defy God for ever
...Sometimes a word, a slight...is that that poem quoted by Timothy...is by a minor Victorian poet, William...point is that McVeigh wrote the scroll...11 June 2001 McVeigh's executioners...did that too. McVeigh, not God...will ... |