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Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post coined the word inaptonym as an antonym for "aptonym". [ 2 ] The word "euonym" ( eu- + -onym ), dated to late 1800, is defined as "a name well suited to the person, place, or thing named".
Miaphysitism (/ m aɪ ˈ æ f ɪ s aɪ t ɪ z əm, m iː-/ [1]) is the Christological doctrine that holds Jesus, the Incarnate Word, is fully divine and fully human, in one nature (physis, Greek: φύσις). [2]
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
The verb stem conveys that "a lending-and-borrowing event is occurring", and the other cues convey who is lending to whom. This makes sense because anytime lending is occurring, borrowing is simultaneously occurring; one cannot happen without the other. The German verb umfahren can mean either "to drive around" or "to run over". The two ...
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
The Oxford dictionary defines an omnist as "a person who believes in all faiths or creeds; a person who believes in a single transcendent purpose or cause uniting all things or people, or the members of a particular group of people". [4] Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, considered the first Deist, argued that all religions were ...
Restored monument with effigy of Lancelot Andrewes in Southwark Cathedral. Lancelot Andrewes (1555 – 25 September 1626) was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.
Compare exonym, heteronym, paronym, and synonym. 2: one person's surname that is the same as another person's surname. [35] [36] 3: Biol. a taxonomic designation that is identical to another designation, and based on the same type, but published at a different time by the same or other authors (see isonym (taxonomy)).