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adamantine
adjective
utterly unyielding or firm in attitude or opinion.
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Adamantine 鈥渦nyielding in attitude or opinion; too hard to cut, break, or pierce; like a diamond (in luster)鈥� comes from Middle English adama(u)ntin, from the Middle French adjective adamantin (feminine adamantine), from Latin adamantinus 鈥減ertaining to diamondlike adamant or steel; resembling diamonds (saxa adamantina), from Greek 补诲补尘谩苍迟颈苍辞蝉, an adjective derived from the noun 补诲谩尘补蝉 (stem adamant-) 鈥渟teel (the hardest metal); diamond.鈥� The traditional etymology for 补诲谩尘补蝉 is the corresponding adjective meaning 鈥渦nbreakable,鈥� somehow a derivative of 诲补尘芒苍 鈥渢o tame, subdue,鈥� with the privative prefix a-; more likely 补诲谩尘补蝉 is a loanword from Semitic. Adamantine entered English in the first half of the 13th century.
how is adamantine used?
Her dedication to the pursuit of equality for the masses was adamantine, however.
And the moment of commitment came with the special force that was central to his character: an adamantine, unshakable conviction that what he was doing was unequivocally right …
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sojourn
noun
a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
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The noun sojourn means “a temporary stay.” The verb sojourn, 鈥渢o stay for a time, reside temporarily,鈥� has several dozen Middle English spellings: sojournen, sojourni, suggorn, suggeourn, etc. The Middle English forms derive from equally exuberant Old French forms, for example, sejorner, sojorner, sojourneir, sojurner, and Anglo-French forms, for example, sojurner, sujurner. The French forms derive from an unrecorded Vulgar Latin verb 蝉耻产诲颈耻谤苍腻谤别 鈥渢o stay for a time,鈥� a compound of the preposition and prefix sub, sub-, here meaning 鈥渁 little, for a while鈥� and the Latin verb 诲颈耻谤苍腻谤别 鈥渢o live for a long time,鈥� a derivative of the Latin adjective diurnus 鈥渂elonging to the daytime, occurring every day.鈥� Sojourn entered English in the 13th century.
how is sojourn used?
Nevertheless, in this mansion of gloom I now proposed to myself a sojourn of some weeks.
He begins to conjecture how much he has gained and lost during his long sojourn in the American republic.
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d茅j脿 vu
noun
the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.
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The late, great social philosopher Lawrence 鈥淵ogi鈥� Berra is credited with saying 鈥淚t鈥檚 d茅j脿 vu all over again,鈥� referring to Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris constantly hitting back-to-back home runs for the Yankees in the early ’60s. This 鈥淵ogi-ism鈥� aside, d茅j脿 vu, literally “already seen,” is the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time, a term used in psychology. The phrase is French; it was first used and perhaps coined by Emile Boirac (1851鈥�1917), a French philosopher and parapsychologist. 顿茅箩脿 鈥渁lready鈥� comes from Old French des ja 鈥渇rom now on鈥�; des comes from Vulgar Latin dex or de ex, a combination of Latin prepositions 诲脓 鈥渙f, from鈥� and ex 鈥渙ut, out of.鈥� Ja 鈥渘ow, already,鈥� comes from the Latin adverb jam with the same meaning. Vu comes from Vulgar Latin 惫颈诲奴迟耻蝉 or 惫别诲奴迟耻蝉, equivalent to Latin 惫墨蝉耻蝉, past participle of vi诲脓re 鈥渢o see.鈥� 顿茅箩脿 vu entered English in the early 20th century.
how is d茅j脿 vu used?
Trapped in a time loop: That鈥檚 how one man felt because of his recurring episodes of deja vu.
A person experiencing d茅j脿 vu is no more likely to accurately predict what they’re going to see around the next corner than someone who is blindly guessing.
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