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The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper.
Desperate may refer to: Despair (emotion), a feeling of hopelessness; Desperate, a 1947 suspense film directed by Anthony Mann; Desperate (Divinyls album), a 1983 ...
A woman keening at a wake in County Kerry in the early nineteenth century, depicted from the memories of Samuel Carter Hall.She had "black, uncombed locks" and a blue cloak, and held her hands above the body then dramatically waved them in the air "as if by sudden inspiration".
Rage, Tacuinum Sanitatis casanatensis (14th century). Angel with Temperance and Humility virtues versus Devil with Rage and Anger sins.A fresco from the 1717 Saint Nicholas church in Bukovets, Pernik Province, Bulgaria.
“Desperate families coming to our border to seek refuge do not constitute an invasion by a foreign government within the meaning of the law,” said Lee Gelernt, a leading attorney with the ...
Just to notice the correction and that this has already been proved to be a false etymology. "Gringo" was already documented in the Diccionario Castellano of Esteban Terreros y Pando in 1786, so "gringo" has nothing to do with "green go home". The most valid and accepted etymology is a deformation of "griego" that means "greek" in Spanish.
The desperate fisherman agreed and promised the Nøkken his daughter. The day the girl was eighteen she went down to the shore to meet the Nøkken . The Nøkken gladly asked her to walk down to his watery abode, but the girl took forth a knife and said that he would never have her alive, then stuck the knife into her heart and fell down into ...
In their attempt to wrest themselves free from meaninglessness, they are desperate to indiscriminately dedicate themselves to any cause. They might do so without much concern for the concrete content of the cause or for their personal safety. [4] It has been argued that this type of behavior is present in some hardcore activists.