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Dumbledore is a British dialect word, a compound of dumble, which is onomatopoeic, occurring variously as bumble-, dumble-, humble-, and the noun dor (also dorr) 鈥渁n insect that makes a buzzing noise as it flies.鈥� For her Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling selected Dumbledore as the surname of the headmaster of Hogwarts because dumbledore is a dialect word for 鈥渂umblebee,鈥� Albus Dumbledore loved music, and she imagined him walking around “humming to himself.鈥� 顿耻尘产濒别诲辞谤别听is recorded in English by the late 1700s.
how is dumbledore used?
The dumbledore proper is Emerson’s “burly dozing humblebee,” in American prose always a bumblebee.
Any Humble-bee, no matter what species, is known as a Bumble-bee, a Foggie, a Dumbledore, or a Hummel-bee, according to the peculiar dialect of the locality ….
诲茅驳谤颈苍驳辞濒补诲别
noun
a quick deterioration or breakdown, as of a situation or circumstance.
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The rare noun 诲茅驳谤颈苍驳辞濒补诲别 鈥渁 quick deterioration or breakdown,鈥� comes unchanged from French. The French noun is a derivative of the verb 诲茅驳谤颈苍驳辞濒别谤 (earlier 诲茅蝉驳谤颈苍驳辞濒别谤) 鈥渢o tumble down.鈥� The prefix 诲茅– (诲茅s-) comes from the Latin prefix dis– 鈥渁part, asunder.鈥� The French noun suffix –ade ultimately comes from the Latin past participle suffix –腻迟耻蝉 (-腻迟补, –腻迟耻尘). The verb gringoler may be a borrowing of Middle Dutch crinkelen 鈥漷o curl, meander.鈥� 顿茅驳谤颈苍驳辞濒补诲别 entered English by the second half of the 19th century.
how is 诲茅驳谤颈苍驳辞濒补诲别 used?
The economically combatant nation entrenched themselves behind tariffs, played each other tricks with loans, repudiations, sudden inflations and deflations, and no power in the world seemed able to bring them into any concerted action to arrest and stop their common degringolade.
What鈥檚 more, they believe that聽things cannot go on as they are: That the trajectory we鈥檙e on will end in crisis, disaster, 诲茅驳谤颈苍驳辞濒补诲别.
nisus
noun
an effort or striving toward a particular goal or attainment; impulse.
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The rare noun nisus, a technical word used in various branches of philosophy and theology, comes directly from Latin 苍墨蝉耻s, a derivative of the verb 苍墨迟墨 and meaning 鈥渁 resting of one鈥檚 weight on the ground, planting one鈥檚 feet firmly, a strong muscular effort, pressure (of forces), an endeavor, strong effort.鈥� Nisus in the sense “effort” first appears at the end of the 17th century in the聽Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. In later usage nisus simply means “impulse.”
how is nisus used?
The accumulation of wealth into a few hands is the nisus of all bad governments …
… in Aristotle’s teleological universe, every human being … has a kind of inner nisus toward a life of at least civic virtue …