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  2. Metanoia (theology) - Wikipedia

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    Metanoia is used to refer to the change of mind which is brought about in repentance. Repentance is necessary and valuable because it brings about change of mind or metanoia. This change of mind will make the changed person hate sin and love God. The two terms (repentance and metanoia) are often used interchangeably.

  3. Anthimeria - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, this is called conversion; when a noun becomes a verb, it is a denominal verb, when a verb becomes a noun, it is a deverbal noun. In English, many nouns have become verbs. For example, the noun "book" is now often used as a verb, as in the example "Let's book the flight".

  4. Valency (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    There are two ways to change the valency of a verb: reducing and increasing. [12]: 72 Note that for this section, the labels S, A, and P will be used. These are commonly used names (taken from morphosyntactic alignment theory) given to arguments of a verb. S refers to the subject of an intransitive verb, A refers to the agent of a transitive ...

  5. WordNet - Wikipedia

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    WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. It can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a dictionary and thesaurus.

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  7. Grammaticalization - Wikipedia

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    In some verbs the process went further and produced irregular forms—cf. Spanish haré (instead of *haceré, 'I'll do') and tendré (not *teneré, 'I'll have'; the loss of e followed by epenthesis of d is especially common)—and even regular forms (in Italian, the change of the a in the stem cantare to e in canterò has affected the whole ...

  8. Change - Wikipedia

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    Change, Changed or Changing may refer to the below. Other forms are listed at § See also. Alteration. Impermanence, a difference in a state of affairs at different ...

  9. List of English words with dual French and Old English ...

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    wish, will, yearning, longing, want (verb) desire (verb and noun) span distance tumble somersault drink (noun + verb) beverage, imbibe deal amount everlasting eternal freedom liberty brittle frail, fragile weak feeble, faint wild savage betrothal proposal kingship monarchy forebear, forefather ancestor reckless intrepid awesome, unbelievable