hew (en)

(verb) to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument / (verb) to fell by blows of an ax / (verb) to give form or shape to with or as if with heavy cutting blows / (verb) to make cutting blows / (verb) conform adhere / (abbreviation) Department of Health, Education, and Welfare / (verb) to hew (as timber) coarsely without smoothing or finishing / (verb) to form crudely

hew (en)

(verb) to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument / (verb) to fell by blows of an ax / (verb) to give form or shape to with or as if with heavy cutting blows / (verb) to make cutting blows / (verb) conform adhere / (abbreviation) Department of Health, Education, and Welfare / (verb) to hew (as timber) coarsely without smoothing or finishing / (verb) to form crudely

Horatio Alger (en)

a prolific 19th-century American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty

imbroglio (en)

an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation

immanence (en)

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

immanence (en)

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

immanence (en)

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

inhere (en)

(verb) exist essentially or permanently in

keller (en)

basement

knecht (en)

German for servant or slave; mentioned in Hegel's "Lordship and Bondage" as Knechtschaft

limn (en)

(verb) depict or describe in painting or words; suffuse or highlight (something) with a bright color or light

Mammon (en)

(noun) material wealth or possessions especially as having a debasing influence (from the New Testament)

memento mori (en)

(noun) a reminder of mortality / (noun) death's-head

mise-en-abyme (fr)

term derived from heraldry; means "placed into abyss"

misprision (en)

(noun; historical; law) the deliberate concealment of one's knowledge of a treasonable act or a felony; (literary) Harold Bloom's term for when strong writers misinterpret their literary predecessors so as to clear imaginative space for themselves

multivalent (en)

(adj) having or susceptible to many applications, interpretations, meanings, or values

naïf (en)

(noun) one who is naive; derived from French

neoliberalism (en)

the postulate that markets are organised most effectively by private enterprise and that the private pursuit of accumulation will generate the most common good; accomplished by opening international markets and financial networks, and downsizing the welfare state

nihil obstat (en)

(Latin for "nothing hinders"; used in the Roman Catholic Church) a certification by an official censor that a book is not objectionable on doctrinal or moral grounds

numismatics (en)

(noun plural but singular in construction) the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (as medals)

onomastic (en)

(adjective) of, relating to, or consisting of a name or names

ousia (en)

(from Greek) analogous to the English concepts of being and ontic used in contemporary philosophy; one of Heidegger's pet concepts (meaning Being)

paphian (en)

(noun) prostitute / (noun) a native or inhabitant of Paphos / (adjective) of or relating to illicit love; wanton / (adjective) of or relating to Paphos or its people

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?"

paratext (en)

(noun) a concept in literary interpretation; the other material supplied by the author(s), editors, printers, and publishers, including front matter, back matter, footnotes, etc (the peritext) as well as the epitext (interviews, correspondence, diaries, etc); as defined by literary theorist Gérard Genette