ascesis
(en)
(noun) the practice of severe self-discipline, typically for religious reasons
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the old theosophical pact which has always compensated power by ascesis
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the old theosophical pact which has always compensated power by ascesis
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lenitive
(en)
(adjective) alleviating pain or harshness; soothing
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lulled by the lenitive compunction proper to Protestant worship
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lulled by the lenitive compunction proper to Protestant worship
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compunction
(en)
(noun) anxiety arising from awareness of guilt / (noun) distress of mind over an anticipated action or result / (noun) a twinge of misgiving; scruple
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lulled by the lenitive compunction proper to Protestant worship
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lulled by the lenitive compunction proper to Protestant worship
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numen
(en)
(noun) a spiritual force or influence often identified with a natural object, phenomenon, or place
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the amplified sign of the unstable, what we might call the numen
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the amplified sign of the unstable, what we might call the numen
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onomastic
(en)
(adjective) of, relating to, or consisting of a name or names
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There is an onomastics of the Tour de France
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There is an onomastics of the Tour de France
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proscenium
(en)
(noun) the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater / (noun) the part of a modern stage in front of the curtain / (noun) the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium and provides the arch that frames it / (noun) foreground / (noun) foreground
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it permits placing the racer's intimacy on the heroes' proscenium
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it permits placing the racer's intimacy on the heroes' proscenium
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vitiate
(en)
(verb) to make faulty or defective; impair / (verb) to debase in moral or aesthetic status / (verb) to make ineffective
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What is vitiated in the Tour is the basis, the economic motives, the ultimate profit of the ordeal, generator of ideological alibis.
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What is vitiated in the Tour is the basis, the economic motives, the ultimate profit of the ordeal, generator of ideological alibis.
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scission
(en)
(noun) a division or split in a group or union; schism / (noun) an action or process of cutting, dividing, or splitting; the state of being cut, divided, or split
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for this scission there is no Tribunal
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for this scission there is no Tribunal
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fulguration
(en)
(noun) the act or process of flashing like lightning / (noun) electrodesiccation
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it is this weapon alone which can strip the poetic metaphor of its artifice, reveal it as the fulguration of a truth, won over a continuous nausea of language
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it is this weapon alone which can strip the poetic metaphor of its artifice, reveal it as the fulguration of a truth, won over a continuous nausea of language
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dithyrambic
(en)
(noun) a usually short poem in an inspired wild irregular strain / (noun) a statement or writing in an exalted or enthusiastic vein
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in a contagion of dithyrambic images
on poetry
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in a contagion of dithyrambic images
on poetry
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