I Am Words

victoriousvocabulary:

DELIRATION
[noun]
1. madness.
2. aberration of mind; abnormal state of mind; derangement; delirium.
3. alienation of the understanding.
4. irrational action or speech; raving.
Etymology: Latin dēlīrātiōn- (stem of dēlīrātiō) folly, equivalent to dēlīr(āre) - to be silly, literally, go out of the furrow.
[surnaturel]

DELIRATION

[noun]

1. madness.

2. aberration of mind; abnormal state of mind; derangement; delirium.

3. alienation of the understanding.

4. irrational action or speech; raving.

Etymology: Latin dēlīrātiōn- (stem of dēlīrātiō) folly, equivalent to dēlīr(āre) - to be silly, literally, go out of the furrow.

[surnaturel]

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Etymological Origins of Words Related to Insults

repandrev:

Chump Originally meaning “short thick block of wood,” related to Icelandic kumba. As a metaphor for someone’s intelligence, from the 1800s on. (Other insults regarding the literal density of oneâ’s cranium: blockhead, thick, dense.)

I could be productive, or I could read articles about insults… HMM.#

(via thedailyetymology)

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victoriousvocabulary:

INSOLENCE

[noun]

1. contemptuously or boldly rude or impertinent behaviour or speech.

2. the quality or condition of being insolent.

Etymology: Middle English < Latin insolentia.

[Emek]

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victoriousvocabulary:

SCARLET

[noun]

1. a strong to vivid red or reddish orange.

2. scarlet-coloured clothing or cloth.

[adjective]

3. of a strong to vivid red or reddish orange.

4. flagrantly immoral or unchaste.

Etymology: Middle English < Old French escarlate < Mediaeval Latin scarlata, scarletum.

[Song Gum Jin]

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Word of the Day: Motza

writeworld:

motza \MOT-ser, noun:

a large amount of money, especially a sum won in gambling.

More profit, higher share price. These people I’ve been talking about own swags of shares. Each share price rise, they make a motza.
— Richard Beasley, The Ambulance Chaser, 2004

Good business to be in. I bet they made a motza out of that.
— Lisa Walker, Sex, Lies, and Bonsai, 2013

Motza is Australian slang that possibly came from the Italian word mezzo meaning “half” or from the Yiddish word matzo meaning “unleavened bread.” Regardless of its origin, it entered English in early twentieth century.

Source: writeworld

victoriousvocabulary:

REBARBATIVE

[adjective]

1. fearsome; forbidding.

2. tending to irritate; repellent; repulsive; aversive.

3. unattractive and objectionable.

Etymology: from French rébarbatif, from Old French rebarber - to repel (an enemy), to withstand (him) face to face, from re- + barbe - beard, from Latin barba.

[Kindra T. Haugen]

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victoriousvocabulary:

IMPETUOUS

[adjective]

1. characterised by sudden and forceful energy or emotion; impulsive and passionate.

2. of, pertaining to, or characterised by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive.

3. having great impetus; moving with great force; violent; having or marked by violent force.

Etymology: Middle English < Anglo-French < Late Latin impetuōsus, equivalent to Latin impetu(s).

[rational-works]

Source: rational-works

victoriousvocabulary:

AURAL [2]

[adjective]

of or pertaining to the ear or to the sense of hearing.

Etymology: Latin aur(is) - the ear.

AURAL [2]

of or pertaining to an aura; a distinctive and pervasive quality or character; air; atmosphere.

Etymology: Middle English < Latin < Greek, breath (of air).

[sakimichan]

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victoriousvocabulary:

SOLASTALGIA

[noun]

a neologism coined by the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2003 with the first article published on this concept in 2005. It describes a form of psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change, such as mining or climate change. As opposed to nostalgia — the melancholia or homesickness experienced by individuals when separated from a loved home — “solastalgia” is the distress that is produced by environmental change impacting on people while they are directly connected to their home environment.

[yuumei]

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The history of the word “mortgage”

ahdictionary:

In early Anglo-Norman law, property pledged as security for a loan was normally held by the creditor until the debt was repaid. Under this arrangement, the profits or benefits that accrued to the holder of the property could either be applied to the discharge of the principal or taken by the creditor as a form of interest. In his Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliae (1189), Ranulf de Glanville explains that this latter type of pledge, in which the fruits of the property were taken by the creditor without reduction in the debt, was known by the term mort gage, which in Old French means “dead pledge.” Because of Christian prohibitions on profiting from money lending, however, the mortgage was considered a species of usury. The preferred type of pledge, in which the property’s profits went to paying off the debt and thus continued to benefit the borrower, was known in Old French by the term vif gage, “living pledge.” By the time of the great English jurist Thomas Littleton’s Treatise on Tenures (1481), however, the mortgage had evolved into its modern form—a conditional pledge in which the property (and its profits) remain in possession of the debtor during the loan’s repayment. This led Littleton and his followers, such as the influential jurist Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), to explain the mort in mortgage in terms of the permanent loss of the property in the event the borrower fails to repay, rather than of the loss of the profits from the property over the duration of the loan.

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