I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

When a cowhand said that a man had `` good cow sense '', he meant to pay 'im a high compliment.

This will have rested on an older, less categorical sense of what it meant to be a slave.

When forte is indicated, the pianist is meant to evoke a sense of wickedness, thus depicting the antagonist.

Robert Graves in The Greek Myths ( 1955 ; 1960 ) asserts that the ægis in its Libyan sense had been a shamanic pouch containing various ritual objects, bearing the device of a monstrous serpent-haired visage with tusk-like teeth and a protruding tongue which was meant to frighten away the uninitiated.

Its use began to develop from this original sense when the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek ; in Ancient Greece the term διασπορά ( diaspora ) meant " scattering " and was used to refer to citizens of a dominant city-state who emigrated to a conquered land with the purpose of colonization, to assimilate the territory into the empire.

In the first through sixth edition of Kraepelin's influential psychiatry textbook, there was a section on moral insanity, which meant then a disorder of the emotions or moral sense without apparent delusions or hallucinations, and which Kraepelin defined as ' lack or weakness of those sentiments which counter the ruthless satisfaction of egotism '.

Historiographer therefore meant " historian ", and it is in this sense that certain official historians were given the title " Historiographer Royal ", in Sweden ( from 1618 ), England ( from 1660 ), and Scotland ( from 1681 ).

The controversy is usually based on the assumption that the term originally meant someone messing about with something in a positive sense, that is, using playful cleverness to achieve a goal.

At one time, the word, " Engine " ( from Latin, via Old French, ingenium, " ability ") meant any piece of machinery — a sense that persists in expressions such as siege engine.

Broad toleration for other religions made little sense to Europeans forged in the heat of religious conflict, while the lifestyle and pretensions Jahangir afforded himself meant that it was difficult to see him as a devout Muslim.

What " economic democracy " meant in its profoundest sense was free, " democratic " access to the means of life, the counterpart of political democracy, that is, the guarantee of freedom from material want.

The Museum's introductory slideshow recounts that, " In its original sense, the term, " museum " meant " a spot dedicated to the Muses, a place where man's mind could attain a mood of aloofness above everyday affairs.

In its original sense, militia meant " the state, quality, condition, or activity of being a fighter or warrior.

According to Richard Jeffrey, " Before the middle of the seventeenth century, the term ' probable ' ( Latin probabilis ) meant approvable, and was applied in that sense, univocally, to opinion and to action.

In this sense political media would often be meant to form or at least influence public opinion, a least-common-denominator for all members of society.

For the most extreme, to be a Catholic now meant to believe more or less anything one wished to believe, or at least in the sense in which one personally interpreted it.

* Value theory, where value is meant in the philosophical sense.

In its medical sense it has traditionally meant an abnormal swelling of the flesh.

This was the truth, although not in the sense that children and reviewers understood it: Carroll would not explain the meaning of his books because " a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant ".

This is not generally what is meant by “ constrained writing ” in the literary sense, which is motivated by more aesthetic concerns.

For an individual bank, clients ' deposits are its primary liabilities ( in the sense that the bank is meant to give back all client deposits on demand ), whereas reserves and loans are its primary assets ( in the sense that these loans are owed to the bank, not by the bank ).

The I Colonial Corps departed their trenches at 9: 30 am as part of a feint meant to lure the Germans opposite into a false sense of security.

The Arawaks, however, had no concept of right and wrong in the European sense, and only dimly comprehended concepts such as worship and faith, but they knew what disobedience meant.

Now the Czarship had not affected my own sense of social values, but Mother had attained a reflected glory through it, which had opened the doors of Los Angeles-Pasadena Society to her.

and in the fact that she bases her decisions about work, college, carreer, and studies on what others are doing, rather than on her own sense of identity with given skills, abilities, likes, and dislikes.

He judged her to be a woman of some pride, though not much sense.

Still she would probably have sense enough not to call in the local sheriff to find her boy friend who, apparently, had run away.

She dressed and the accustomed routine restored to her a sense of normal everyday life.

Henrietta murmured that she could quite see how it would, and he nodded approval of her womanly good sense.

Even at a car's length I could sense that something was wrong, and so I followed her up to the turnaround in front of the house.

Christie wrote that Poirot is a Roman Catholic, and gave her character a strong sense of Catholic morality later in works.

Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.

Ariel Levy used the term in similar, but opposite sense in her book, Female Chauvinist Pigs, in which she argues that many young women in the United States and beyond are replicating male chauvinism and older misogynist stereotypes.

Statements of " belief " sometimes mean the speaker has faith that something would prove to be useful or successful in some sense — perhaps the speaker might " believe in " his or her favorite football team.

After the short reigns of Elizabeth's half-siblings, her 44 years on the throne provided welcome stability for the kingdom and helped forge a sense of national identity.

In a letter to Ann Popham he wrote: ' I was sometimes unfaithful to Eileen, and I also treated her badly, and I think she treated me badly, too, at times, but it was a real marriage, in the sense that we had been through awful struggles together and she understood all about my work, etc.

She learned to " hear " people's speech by reading their lips with her hands — her sense of touch had become extremely subtle.

What is intended by the question is the sense of the word, " same ", in which an old woman is the same person at the end of her life as she is, at the beginning of her life.

Paul contrasted Isaac, symbolizing Christian liberty, with the rejected older son Ishmael, symbolizing slavery ; Hagar is associated with the Sinai covenant, while Sarah is associated with the covenant of grace, into which her son Isaac enters. The Epistle of James chapter 2, verses 21-24 states that the sacrifice of Isaac shows that justification ( in the Johannine sense ) requires both faith and works.

When a person's actions are completely virtuous in all matters in relation to others, Aristotle calls her " just " in the sense of " general justice ;" as such this idea of justice is more or less coextensive with virtue.

When she eventually came across the Wiccan religion many years later, she then found that it confirmed her earlier childhood experiences, and that " I never converted in the accepted sense.

A corollary to Rand's endorsement of self-interest is her rejection of the ethical doctrine of altruism — which she defined in the sense of Auguste Comte's altruism ( he coined the term ), as a moral obligation to live for the sake of others.

However, if an entire industry tacitly settles on a somewhat careless standard of conduct ( that is, as analyzed from the perspective of a layperson ), then the plaintiff may not be able to recover even though he or she is severely injured, because although the defendant's conduct caused his or her injuries, such conduct was not negligent in the legal sense ( if everyone within the trade would inevitably testify that the defendant's conduct conformed to that of a reasonable tradeperson in such circumstances ).

This latter understanding of peace can also pertain to an individual's introspective sense or concept of her / himself, as in being " at peace " in one's own mind, as found in European references from c. 1200.