This term was used in conjunction with " savages ", which was either seen as a brutal barbarian, or alternatively, as " noble savage ".

The term " noble truths " is a common translation of the Pali terms ariya sacca ( Sanskrit: arya satya ).

The name makes an analogy to the term " noble metals ", which also have low reactivity.

The term " social science " may refer either to the specific sciences of society established by thinkers such as Comte, Durkheim, Marx, and Weber, or more generally to all disciplines outside of " noble science " and arts.

In France the stock figure that in English is called the " noble savage " has always been simply " le bon sauvage ", " the good wild man ", a term without the any of the paradoxical frisson of the English one.

Ellingson argues that the term " noble savage ", an oxymoron, is a derogatory one, which those who oppose " soft " or romantic primitivism use to discredit ( and intimidate ) their supposed opponents, whose romantic beliefs they feel are somehow threatening to civilization.

The term is more appropriate to the era of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe when strong centrally governed nations were slowly forming and territorial governance was in the hands of a noble or of a noble house.

The term is used both collectively to refer to the entire body of noble titles ( or a subdivision thereof ), and individually to refer to a specific title ( and generally has an initial capital in the former case and not the latter ).

In the 14th century the English language increasingly replaced Latin and Norman French in noble circles, and the French term valet and the Latin term valectus were replaced by the term yeoman.

Throughout the medieval period the term yeoman was used in royal and noble households to indicate a servant's rank, position or status.

Madonna is a medieval Italian term for a noble or otherwise important woman, and has long been used commonly in reference to images of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Another sign of collaboration is that Wihtred ’ s laws use gesith, a West Saxon term for noble, in place of the Kentish term eorlcund.

The Welsh term bardd (" poet ", which is the source of the English word bard ) originally referred to the Welsh poets of the Middle Ages, who might be itinerant or attached to a noble household.

The term Maharaj denotes separate noble and religious offices, although the fact that in Hindi the suffix ' a ' in Maharaja is silent makes the two titles near homophones.

This term can also be used in a relative sense, considering " noble " as an adjective for the word " metal ".

Inside Byzantium, the term could be used to refer to any powerful noble or magnate, but in a technical sense, it was applied to a class of provincial governors.

The term inert gas is context-dependent because nitrogen gas and several of the noble gases can be made to react under certain conditions.

Though the cooking technique is probably older, the term mirepoix dates from the 18th century and derives, as do many other appellations in French cuisine, from the aristocratic employer of the cook credited with establishing and stabilizing it: in this case, Charles-Pierre-Gaston François de Lévis, duc de Lévis-Mirepoix ( 1699 – 1757 ), French field marshal and ambassador and a member of the noble family of Lévis, lords of Mirepoix in Languedoc since the 11th century.

John Wycliffe ( 1380s ) uses the term knyytis generically for men-at-arms, and only in the 15th century did the word acquire the overtones of a noble cavalryman corresponding to the meaning of chevalier.

French peerage thus differed from British peerage ( to whom the term " baronage ", also employed as the title of the lowest noble rank, was applied in its generic sense ), for the vast majority of French nobles, from baron to duke, were not peers.

The term ignoble savage has an obvious negative connotation.

The term ascribed to them in Anglo-Norman blazon ( the language of English heraldry ) is maure, though they are also sometimes called moore, blackmoor, blackamoor, negro or occasionally savage.

He summarizes, " the word barbarian embodies a complex European cultural construct, a generic pejorative term for a ' powerful foreigner with uncouth, uncivilized, nonurban culture who was militarily skilled and somewhat heroic, but inclines to violence and cruelty ' – yet not a ' savage ' or a ' wild man '.

Spanish sea captain Francisco de Cuellar who sailed with the Spanish Armada in 1588 used the term ' savage ' (' salvaje ') to describe the Irish people.

In an anthropological or scientific context, the term " savage " is controversial and usually considered obsolete.

Mansfield was inspired in her writing by Fauvism, a contemporary art movement of the period, as well as Chekhov, although neither literary style had a profound effect on her writing in the long term ( Fauvist literature has been described as ' savage ').

Emile is not a panegyric for the loss of the noble savage, a term Rousseau never actually used.

The greater themes of the series so far are: post-colonial backlash, loss of cultural identity, and " Going Native "- a term applied to those of " civilized " nature who abandon their own culture and adopt the lifestyle of a more " savage " persuasion.

The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).

The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).

The term for the mountain peaks varies by nation and language: words such as horn, kogel, gipfel, and berg are used in German speaking regions: mont and aguille in French speaking regions ; and monte or cima in Italian speaking regions.

Jean-Robert Argand introduced the term " module " ' unit of measure ' in French in 1806 specifically for the complex absolute value and it was borrowed into English in 1866 as the Latin equivalent " modulus ".

The term " absolute value " has been used in this sense since at least 1806 in French and 1857 in English.

The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian speakers may use the term American to refer to either inhabitants of the Americas or to U. S. nationals.

They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.

For example, the term is used to describe systems such as verlan and louchébem, which retain French syntax and apply transformations only to individual words ( and often only to a certain subset of words, such as nouns, or semantic content words ).

The annual CHIO ( short for the French term Concours Hippique International Officiel ) is the biggest equestrian meeting of the world and among horsemen considered to be as prestigious for equitation as the tournament of Wimbledon for tennis.

The term ' antibiosis ', meaning " against life ," was introduced by the French bacteriologist Vuillemin as a descriptive name of the phenomenon exhibited by these early antibacterial drugs.

The term ' the 10th of August ' is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10th of August, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.

The term " morphine ", used in English and French, was given by the French physicist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ).

In non-Anglo-Saxon or French contexts, the term dodecasyllable is often used.

The term is French: acquis meaning " that which has been agreed upon ", and communautaire meaning " of the community ".

Abettor ( from to abet, Old French abeter, à and beter, to bait, urge dogs upon any one ; this word is probably of Scandinavian origin, meaning to cause to bite ), is a legal term implying one who instigates, encourages or assists another to commit an offence.

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

It has been given the term " bruit ", French for noise.

The term " Bohemianism ", when used to mean " social unconventionality ", comes from the French bohémien " Gypsy " " because Romani people were thought to come from Bohemia, or because they perhaps entered the West through Bohemia ".