Your Words of the day 4/14/2003
Word of the Day for Monday April 14, 2003
tmesis \TMEE-sis\, noun:
In grammar and rhetoric, the separation of the parts of a compound word, now generally done for humorous effect; for example, 'what place soever' instead of 'whatsoever place,' or
'abso-bloody-lutely.'
Examples of tmesis:
If on the first, how heinous e'er it be,To win thy after-love I pardon thee. --Shakespeare, Richard II
His income-tax return, he remarked, was the 'most rigged-up marole' he'd ever seen.
--Frederic Packard
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confrere \KON-frair\, noun:
A fellow member of a fraternity or profession; a colleague; a comrade; an intimate associate.
At Father Kilmartin's death the book was left unfinished (a sign of the times: not in manuscript, but on his laptop);and the arduous but also extremely delicate task of putting it into publishable condition was carried out by his Jesuit confrere, Robert J. Daly.
tmesis \TMEE-sis\, noun:
In grammar and rhetoric, the separation of the parts of a compound word, now generally done for humorous effect; for example, 'what place soever' instead of 'whatsoever place,' or
'abso-bloody-lutely.'
Examples of tmesis:
If on the first, how heinous e'er it be,To win thy after-love I pardon thee. --Shakespeare, Richard II
His income-tax return, he remarked, was the 'most rigged-up marole' he'd ever seen.
--Frederic Packard
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confrere \KON-frair\, noun:
A fellow member of a fraternity or profession; a colleague; a comrade; an intimate associate.
At Father Kilmartin's death the book was left unfinished (a sign of the times: not in manuscript, but on his laptop);and the arduous but also extremely delicate task of putting it into publishable condition was carried out by his Jesuit confrere, Robert J. Daly.
