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The noun peeve, meaning an annoyance, is believed to have originated in the United States early in the twentieth century, derived by back-formation from the adjective peevish, meaning "ornery or ill-tempered", which dates from the late 14th-century.
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Dervish, Darvesh, or Darwīsh (from Persian: درویش, romanized: Darvīsh) [1] in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity (tariqah), [2] [3] [4] or more narrowly to a religious mendicant, who chose or accepted material poverty.
They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative; but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren. Envy, and impotent desires, are their prevailing passions.
In a parody of heroic poetry and the "dark" and "mysterious" alchemical literature, and in particular the sometimes esoterically Classical heroic poetry of the 18th century in England and France, Pope pretends to have a new alchemy, in which the sylph is the mystically, chemically condensed humors of peevish women.
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Penile–vaginal intercourse, or vaginal intercourse, is a form of penetrative sexual intercourse in human sexuality, in which an erect penis is inserted into a vagina. [1] ...
He was well informed on theological matters by his education and Scottish upbringing, and he dealt shortly with the peevish legacy of Elizabethan Puritanism, pursuing an eirenic religious policy, in which he was arbiter. Many of James's episcopal appointments were Calvinists, notably James Montague, who was an influential courtier.