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Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
A discipline within linguistics concerned with the meaning of a word independent of its phonetic expression. sematology [222] The science of language as expressed by signs. A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words; semantics. semiology The study of signs. (medicine) The science of the signs or symptoms of disease.
The meanings of these words do not always correspond to Germanic cognates, and occasionally the specific meaning in the list is unique to English. Those Germanic words listed below with a Frankish source mostly came into English through Anglo-Norman, and so despite ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic, came to English through a Romance ...
These wise words from artists, poets, singers, and mere mortals in love will help you choose the perfect phrases to describe your romance. Whether your love language is silly or serious, this list ...
35. “Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.” —Sarah Bernhardt 36. “Chemistry is you touching my arm and setting fire to my mind.”Nayyirah Waheed
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. [2]
The condemnation of courtly love in the beginning of the 13th century by the church as heretical, is seen by these scholars as the Church's attempt to put down this "sexual rebellion". [5] [23] However, other scholars note that courtly love was certainly tied to the Church's effort to civilize the crude Germanic feudal codes in the late 11th ...
A popular misconception about being aromantic, she adds, is a false notion that they are incapable of loving another human being. “For asexuality, people tend to [think we] have something wrong ...