Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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(verb) to renounce upon oath / (verb) to reject solemnly / (verb) to abstain from; avoid

(verb) to renounce upon oath / (verb) to reject solemnly / (verb) to abstain from; avoid

(noun) the act of renouncing or rejecting something; self-denial

(adjective) relating to or concerned with earning a living / (adjective) utilitarian practical

all other things being equal

(verb) to bring out (as something latent) / (verb) deduce

regarding something abstract as a material thing (fallaciously); an effect of reification

philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence in which the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world

not generated; self-existent; innate

(adjective) tending to cause discontent, animosity, or envy / (adjective) envious / (adjective) of an unpleasant or objectionable nature; obnoxious / (adjective) of a kind to cause harm or resentment

(adjective) lacking nutritive value / devoid of significance or interest; dull / naive, simplistic, and superficial

(noun) a posited object or event as it appears in itself independent of perception by the senses

(adjective) supernatural mysterious / (adjective) filled with a sense of the presence of divinity; holy / (adjective) appealing to the higher emotions or to the aesthetic sense; spiritual

(noun) a reversal of circumstances, or turning point; Anglicised form of the Greek "peripeteia"

(noun) the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense (as in the man he said); redundancy

(noun) the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense (as in the man he said); redundancy

the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation (adj: semiotic)

ridiculous, foolish

(adjective) affording a general view of a whole / (adjective) manifesting or characterized by comprehensiveness or breadth of view / (adjective) presenting or taking the same or common view

the philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent intrinsic purpose, directive principle, or goal, irrespective of human use or opinion

the philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent intrinsic purpose, directive principle, or goal, irrespective of human use or opinion

(noun) a change or variation occurring in the course of something; successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs

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