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archaisms

Observe also the archaism of putting the adjective last: “joy intolerable,” “song unpronounceable,” “glory unimaginable.”

—p.107 Style I: Depictions of Love (89) by Ayn Rand
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paterfamilias

He was born in one of its North Shore suburbs; he was raised, reached adulthood, and became a paterfamilias as a “typical suburbanite.”

—p.688 Book Nine: Second Chance (688) by Studs Terkel
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dross

A perverse alchemy is at work: the gold that may be found in their unexamined lives is transmuted into the dross of banal being.

—p.xxix Introduction (xiii) by Studs Terkel
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homily

An American President is fortunate—or, perhaps, unfortunate—that, offering his Labor Day homily

—p.xv Introduction (xiii) by Studs Terkel
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