tenebrous
(en)
(adjective) shut off from the light; dark murky / (adjective) hard to understand; obscure / (adjective) causing gloom
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they flatter the writer with the tenebrous incense of the oracular
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they flatter the writer with the tenebrous incense of the oracular
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meliorism
(en)
(noun) the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment
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Cioran's stoic élitism, his rejection of meliorism à l'américaine
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Cioran's stoic élitism, his rejection of meliorism à l'américaine
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covey
(en)
(noun) a mature bird or pair of birds with a brood of young / (noun) a small flock / (noun) company group
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He was the grandson of a Prime Minister and cousin or nephew to a covey of military, diplomatic, and ecclesiastical worthies.
on Bertrand Russell
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He was the grandson of a Prime Minister and cousin or nephew to a covey of military, diplomatic, and ecclesiastical worthies.
on Bertrand Russell
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espalier
(en)
(noun) a plant (as a fruit tree) trained to grow flat against a support (as a wall) / (noun) a railing or trellis on which fruit trees or shrubs are trained to grow flat / (verb) to train as an espalier / (verb) to furnish with an espalier
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This was the England of espaliers and velvet lawns
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This was the England of espaliers and velvet lawns
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coterie
(en)
(noun) an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose
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the small, vibrant coterie of Apostles to which he belonged at Cambridge
on Bertrand Russell
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the small, vibrant coterie of Apostles to which he belonged at Cambridge
on Bertrand Russell
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precept
(en)
(noun) a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action / (noun) an order issued by legally constituted authority to a subordinate official
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birth and genius are impose both the right and the obligation of moral precept
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birth and genius are impose both the right and the obligation of moral precept
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misericord
(en)
(noun) a small projection on the bottom of a hinged church seat that gives support to a standing worshiper when the seat is turned up
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This aristocratic misericord
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This aristocratic misericord
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monism
(en)
(noun) a view that there is only one kind of ultimate substance / (noun) the view that reality is one unitary organic whole with no independent parts / (noun) monogenesis / (noun) a viewpoint or theory that reduces all phenomena to one principle
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There is a strong streak of monism in Chomsky's desires to get to the root of things
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There is a strong streak of monism in Chomsky's desires to get to the root of things
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patzer
(en)
(noun) an inept chess player
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Even the patzer, the wretched amateur who charges out with his knight pawn when the opponent's bishop decamps to R4
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Even the patzer, the wretched amateur who charges out with his knight pawn when the opponent's bishop decamps to R4
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suimate
(en)
checkmate forced by the side that is checkmated called also self-mate
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Thus there is, literally, in every mate a touch of what is called suimate--a kind of chess problem in which the solver is required to maneuver his own pieces into mate.
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Thus there is, literally, in every mate a touch of what is called suimate--a kind of chess problem in which the solver is required to maneuver his own pieces into mate.
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