telos
(en)
(noun) an ultimate end (from Greek)
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There is a quasi-religious overtone to all of this—everything in the past has been moving toward a telos, a predestined end.
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There is a quasi-religious overtone to all of this—everything in the past has been moving toward a telos, a predestined end.
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bailiwick
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(noun) the office or jurisdiction of a bailiff / (noun) a special domain
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This was Forrestal’s bailiwick.
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This was Forrestal’s bailiwick.
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syzygy
(en)
(noun) the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system
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U.S. empire abroad found its replica in the War on Crime at home: to break the political syzygy of an authoritarian state apparatus in Sacramento or Saigon
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U.S. empire abroad found its replica in the War on Crime at home: to break the political syzygy of an authoritarian state apparatus in Sacramento or Saigon
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charnel
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(noun) a building or chamber in which bodies or bones are deposited
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among the abattoirs and charnel houses from which scientist Victor Frankenstein scavenges body parts
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among the abattoirs and charnel houses from which scientist Victor Frankenstein scavenges body parts
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