paratactic
(en)
(adj) relating to parataxis, a grammatical concept involving the placing of clauses or phrases one after another, without words to indicate coordination or subordination, as in "Tell me, how are you?"
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The paratactic laying-out of details—In Kentucky the “wrinkled, broken jockeys with faces like the shell of a nut,” in Manhattan the affluent young couples “taking off the stoop so that drunks cannot loiter, making a whole floor for the children to be quiet on”—stripped of connective material
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The paratactic laying-out of details—In Kentucky the “wrinkled, broken jockeys with faces like the shell of a nut,” in Manhattan the affluent young couples “taking off the stoop so that drunks cannot loiter, making a whole floor for the children to be quiet on”—stripped of connective material
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apotheosis
(en)
the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax
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The apotheosis of a local teaching certificate, a celestial and long-delayed reward for girls.
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The apotheosis of a local teaching certificate, a celestial and long-delayed reward for girls.
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sacerdotal
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(adjective) of or relating to priests or a priesthood; priestly / (adjective) of, relating to, or suggesting sacerdotalism
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To become a sacerdotal offering, very much like those pale schoolteachers in Latin America, men from the poor villages, sweating in their black suits and white shirts, receiving and giving a peculiar list of punishments in their visionary calling.
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To become a sacerdotal offering, very much like those pale schoolteachers in Latin America, men from the poor villages, sweating in their black suits and white shirts, receiving and giving a peculiar list of punishments in their visionary calling.
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exegesis
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(from the Greek for "to lead out") a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text
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How pleasant the rooms were, how comforting the distresses of New Yorkers, their insomnias filled with words, their patient exegesis of surprising terrors.
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How pleasant the rooms were, how comforting the distresses of New Yorkers, their insomnias filled with words, their patient exegesis of surprising terrors.
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abeyance
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(noun) a lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom a title is vested / (noun) temporary inactivity; suspension
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What he held in abeyance, what the legal bachelorhood represented, was his grail, his lingering, halfhearted vision of self-realization.
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What he held in abeyance, what the legal bachelorhood represented, was his grail, his lingering, halfhearted vision of self-realization.
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apostate
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a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle; the general form is "apostasy"
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in your cloudy eyes there is the same misty defense against apostasy that recalls to me Mason in his stubborn cigarette clouds
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in your cloudy eyes there is the same misty defense against apostasy that recalls to me Mason in his stubborn cigarette clouds
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