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bailiwick
noun
a person's area of skill, knowledge, authority, or work: to confine suggestions to one's own bailiwick.
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Bailiwick nowadays means 鈥渙ne鈥檚 area of skill, knowledge, authority, or work,鈥� and less commonly, its original sense 鈥渢he district within which a bailiff has jurisdiction.鈥� Bailiwick comes from Middle English baillifwik (bailliwik, bailewik), a compound noun formed from bailliff 鈥渁n officer of the court; an official with minor local authority鈥� and wick (wic, wike, wicke) 鈥渄welling, home, village, town, city,鈥� from Old English 飞墨肠 “dwelling place, abode,鈥� from Latin 惫墨肠耻蝉 鈥渧illage; a block (in a town or city often forming an administrative unit),鈥� which appears in placenames such as Sandwich (on the coast of Kent), Old English Sandwic, Sondwic 鈥渕arket town on sandy soil, or Warwick 鈥渧illage by the weir (low dam).鈥� Bailiwick entered English in the mid-15th century.
how is bailiwick used?
He was spooning up gelato but talking about music, which is his bailiwick, if it鈥檚 anybody鈥檚.
I wasn鈥檛 surprised to see him there because this was an action venue that was right in his political bailiwick.听
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hitherto
adverb
up to this time; until now: a fact hitherto unknown.
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The adverb hitherto, 鈥渦p to this time or place,鈥� comes from Middle English hiderto; the modern spelling with th replacing d first appears in Wycliffe鈥檚 Bible (1382). Hitherto seems to have completely replaced hiderto by the time of Tyndale鈥檚 translation of the Bible in 1526. Hiderto first appears in English in the first half of the 13th century.
how is hitherto used?
The attention suddenly lavished on this hitherto obscure doctrine is surprising, but heartening, to anyone who has long labored in the civil-rights field …
A team of archaeologists found 鈥渘ew evidence for hitherto unknown features or monumental structures鈥� about two miles northeast of Stonehenge …
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egalitarian
adjective
asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life.
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The English adjective and noun egalitarian 鈥渁sserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life,鈥� comes from the French adjective and noun 茅驳补濒颈迟补颈谤别 of the same meaning. 脡驳补濒颈迟补颈谤别 is a derivative of the noun 茅驳补濒颈迟茅 鈥渆quality,鈥� but in English 茅驳补濒颈迟茅 is usually used in allusion to the French Revolutionary motto libert茅, 茅驳补濒颈迟茅, fraternit茅 鈥渓iberty, equality, fraternity.鈥� (脡驳补濒颈迟茅 first appears in English in 1794 in a letter written by vice president John Adams to his wife Abigail: 鈥淚 hope my old Friend, will never meet the Fate of another Preacher of 脡驳补濒颈迟茅, who was I fear almost as sincere as himself.鈥�) 脡驳补濒颈迟茅 is a derivative of the adjective 茅驳补濒, from the Latin adjective 补别辩耻腻濒颈蝉 鈥渆qual (in amount, size, duration, etc.), symmetrical, uniform, contemporary鈥� (as a noun, 补别辩耻腻濒颈蝉 means 鈥渁 person of the same age as another, a contemporary, a person of equal rank or ability.鈥� Egalitarian entered English in the late 19th century.
how is egalitarian used?
If we do not learn the lessons of history and choose a radically different path forward, we may lose our last chance at creating a truly inclusive, egalitarian democracy.
Our commitment to egalitarian ideals has been severely tested by everything from the untenable quality of the United States鈥檚 yawning wealth gap to the resurgence of an ethno-nationalism that has led to anti-humanitarian policies against Latinx migrants and Muslim families.
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