To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

( Hymen, in fact, is the Greek word for membrane.

Everywhere there seems to be a growing recognition of the fact that governments and religious institutions alike are too fallible and corruptible -- in a word, too human -- to warrant any claim of maintaining partnership with the divine.

Some clue to the character of London's approach in these discs may be gained immediately from the fact that ten of the 12 titles include the word `` percussion '' or `` percussive ''.

The name " argon " is derived from the Greek word αργον meaning " lazy " or " the inactive one ", a reference to the fact that the element undergoes almost no chemical reactions.

The word " furlong " itself derives from the fact that it is one furrow long.

John Dewey has pointed out that the unity of aesthetics and ethics is in fact reflected in our understanding of behaviour being " fair "-the word having a double meaning of attractive and morally acceptable.

Thackston argues that the name cannot be taken from babr and instead must be derived from a word that has evolved out of the Indo-European word for beaver, pointing to the fact that the name is pronounced bāh-bor in both Persian and Turkic, similar to the Russian word for beaver ( бобр – bobr ).

Yet, given that Pliny had not heard the word directly from a Cimbric informant, it cannot be ruled out that the word is in fact Gaulish instead.

Noting that using a word with caca in it to describe a thick, brown beverage would not have gone over well with most speakers of Spanish due to the fact that caca means faeces in Spanish, the Coes suggest that the Spanish colonisers combined the Nahuatl atl with the Yucatec Maya chocol, for unlike the Aztec, the Maya tended to drink chocolate heated.

The research team went on to " point out that, in recognition of the fact that dysprosium is named on the basis of a Greek word meaning ' difficult to get at ,' that the searchers for another element a century ago found it difficult to get to California.

Note that while the terms demon and demonic are used in monotheistic faiths as antonyms to divine, they are in fact derived from the Greek word daimón ( δαίμων ), which itself translates as divinity.

In fact, does not merely sound wrong, it sounds like a different word — 桃 ( Pinyin táo, ) " peach ", or 套 " cover " ( distinguished by tone ).

" The Ambassador's word choice, along with the estimation of the British Ambassador in Addis Ababa, makes quite clear the fact that the Eritrea aspiration was for Independence.

The word dandelion ( literally, tooth of lion, referring to the shape of the leaves ) is another example, being a substitute for pissenlit, meaning " wet the bed ", a possible reference to the fact that dandelion was used as a diuretic.

The word can also be used to describe a particularly insignificant or novel fact, in the absence of much relevant context.

The word is defined by the Compact Oxford English Dictionary as " an item of unreliable information that is repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact ".

Mailer described a factoid as " facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper ", and created the word by combining the word fact and the ending-oid to mean " similar but not the same ".

The Washington Times described Mailer's new word as referring to " something that looks like a fact, could be a fact, but in fact is not a fact ".

This originally referred to the fact that clover is fattening to cattle.

Most current buffalo herds are genetically polluted or partly crossbred with cattle, and hence are in fact " beefalo ".

The road crossed the St. Johns River at a narrow point, which the Seminole called Wacca Pilatka and the British named the " Cow Ford ", both names ostensibly reflecting the fact that cattle were brought across the river there.

She ponders about medical experiments conducted by Nazi physicians ; about the gas chambers in the death camps, implicitly comparing a crowded New York subway with a cattle wagon to Auschwitz ; the Nazis making soap with human fat ; Pope Pius XII and Roman Catholicism ; displaced Jews after World War II ; anti-Semitism in general ; Neo-Nazis in Germany and Austria ; the world population of Jews in 1939 and today and the fact that there were " no Jews left " in Poland after World War II ; business in the DP camps ( i. e. bartering with cigarettes ), coffee but also Nazi memorabilia ; and she considers with disgust a video game on CD-ROM entitled " How to Survive the Holocaust ".

The Navajo Indians occupy the northern part of the county-in fact, occupy much of the remainder of the county, as they refuse to remain on their reservation, preferring to drive their sheep and cattle on lands outside their reservation, where the grazing is better.

Part of the reason for such a statement may have been the fact that at one time Frenchman Creek and its main branch the Stinking Water Creek were used as watering stops for cattle drives that traveled from Texas to the Union Pacific railhead at Ogallala.

" Although the neighboring states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri would also produce boogie-woogie players and their boogie-woogie tunes, and despite the fact that Chicago would become known as the center for this music through such pianists as Jimmy Yancey, Albert Ammons, and Meade " Lux " Lewis, Texas was home to an environment that fostered creation of boogie-style: the lumber, cattle, turpentine, and oil industries, all served by an expanding railway system from the northern corner of East Texas to the Gulf Coast and from the Louisiana border to Dallas and West Texas.

In fact, in many of the Russian folk tales, Veles, appearing under the Christian guise of St. Nicholas, saves the poor farmer and his cattle from the furious and destructive St. Elias the Thunderer, who, of course, represents the old Perun.

Cooper's name is mainly associated with pictures of cattle or sheep, a fact that earned him the epithet ' Cows Cooper '.

In fact, Maverick's failure to brand his cattle had little to do with independent mindedness, but reflected his lack of interest in ranching.

For instance, CNN recently portrayed the Samburu practice of young men giving a large number of beads to a particular girl as tantamount to rape, and erroneously stated that no research exists on the tradition despite the fact that anthropological portrayals based on long term studies show it to be largely akin to the U. S. practice of “ going steady .” In a 2009 article MSNBC took readers on a tour through imaginary places purported to be in Samburu District, while asserting that ethnic conflict between Samburu and the neighboring Pokot was the result of both sides starving because they had more cattle than the rangelands could support, although the reporter did not indicate how having too many cattle could make people starve.

In fact, like the rest of the country, their most prized possessions are cattle, which patriarchs demand as lobola, bride-price ( dowry ), in return for the hand of their daughters in marriage.

This tradition is heavily influenced by the fact that it was developed during a time when people let their cattle graze on mountains or in the forest for long periods of the year.

In fact, apparent homosexual individuals are known from all of the traditional domestic species, from sheep, cattle and horses to cats, dogs and budgerigars.

The station derives its name from the fact that grazing lands for cattle and horses were located nearby in earlier days ( Charne in Marathi means to graze ) In 1838, the British rulers introduced a ' grazing fee ' which several cattle-owners could not afford.

One ready example is provided by the fact that, between 1996 and 1997, TV Globo broadcast the telenovela O Rei do Gado (" The cattle baron "), where a beautiful female sem terra, played by actress Patricia Pillar, fell in love with a male landowner.

In fact Gobabis is so proud of its cattle farming that a statue of a large Brahman bull with the inscription " Cattle Country " greets visitors to the town.

In fact, meat and dairy products from grass-fed animals can produce 300-500 % more CLA than those of cattle fed the usual diet of 50 % hay and silage, and 50 % grain.

In fact most beef cattle are raised on pasture from birth in the spring until autumn ( 7 to 9 months ).

In fact, Corominas mentions in Aragonese boalage, boalar, " dehesa boyal " (" ox pasture ") as derivatives of boal, which would be at the same time a variant of boyal, " perteneciente al buey o al ganado vacuno " (" belonging to ox or to cattle ").

In fact, once past the landslip the floor of the glen is wide and flat – ideal for cattle.

The fact of the stolen cattle and Glenlyon's involvement in the massacre were used by the English in an attempt to thinly veil the massacre as simply the outcome of thievery and clan rivalry.

In response to criticism over the use of the term " cattle " to describe non-believers, Hasan wrote in his New Statesman blog: " The Quranic phrase ' people of no intelligence ' simply and narrowly refers to the fact that Muslims regard their views on God as the only intellectually tenable position, just as atheists ( like Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris ) regard believers as fundamentally irrational and, even, mentally deficient.