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word and tragedy
The primary purpose of this text is to refine the literary concept dhvani or poetic suggestion, by arguing for the existence of rasa-dhvani, primarily in forms of Sanskrit including a word, sentence or whole work " suggests " a real-world emotional state or bhāva, but thanks to aesthetic distance, the sensitive spectator relishes the rasa, the aesthetic flavor of tragedy, heroism or romance.
He shared in Hugo's dissatisfaction with the theatrical outputs of the time and the use of the word " tragedy.
The word " tragedy " appears to have been used to describe different phenomena at different times.
In Poetics, Aristotle gave the following definition in ancient Greek of the word " tragedy " ( τραγωδία ):
( This is speculative, although the wordtragedy ” τραγωδία is contracted from trag ( o )- aoidiā
There was only one fatality in the village mainly because word had spread throughout the immediate area that there was a leak in the earth embankment and the community was partly prepared for the tragedy.
As word of this tragedy spread across the empire, it combined with the catestrophic Russian defeat in the Far East to incite a major uprising against the emperor's authority.
The word tragedy comes from the Greek for " goat song ".
The word τραγῳδία ( tragoidia ), from which the word " tragedy " is derived, is a portmanteau of two Greek words: τράγος ( tragos ) or " goat " and ᾠδή ( ode ) meaning " song ", from ἀείδειν ( aeidein ), " to sing ".
Others suggestion that the term came into being when the legendary Thespis ( the root for our word thespian ) competed in the first tragic competition for the prize of a goat ( tragos, hence tragedy ).
At the origin of the tragedy anthropologists have identified, as indeed seems to confirm the etymology of the word a propitiatory sacrificial rite in which tribal populations still have animals to the gods, especially waiting the harvest or a game of hunting.
However, there are still many unclear points about the origin of tragedy, from the etymology of the word tragus ( s ) día (): stand in it the roots of " goat " ( / Tragos ) and " sing " ( / á ( i ) dô ), would be the " song for the goat.
A more recent theory ( J. Winkler ) derives " tragedy " from the word rare tragìzein (), which means " change voice, take a voice bleating like kids ," referring to actors.
The word Agonistes (), found as an epithet following a person's name, means “ the struggler ” or “ the combatant .” It is most often an allusion to John Milton ’ s, " himself a Christian agonist ", 1671 verse tragedy Samson Agonistes, which recounts the end of Samson's life, when he is a blind captive of the Philistines, described as being “ Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves ”.
He's determined to go to " California ", at first nearly the only word he can say since the tragedy.
The term originates from the Greek word threnoidia, from threnos ( " wailing ") + oide (" ode "); ultimately, from the Proto-Indo-European root wed-(" to speak ") that is also the precursor of such words as " ode ", " tragedy ", " comedy ", " parody ", " melody " and " rhapsody ".
Faced with the tragedy, Catelyn begs Ned not to leave, but Ned says he cannot go back on his word, and leaves for the capital with Sansa and Arya.
Figurative senses relating to tragedy are from the word being used ( since 1570 ) to translate Greek kothurnos or Latin cothurnos, the high, thick-soled boot worn in Athenian tragedy ; contrasted with sock ( from Latin soccus ), the low shoe worn by comedians.

word and encloses
Looc is from the Filipino / Onhan word Look, meaning " bay ", pertaining to the body of water the town encloses.

word and for
How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.
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.
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.
Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.
The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.
Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.
One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.
That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.
There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.
If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.
It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.
Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.
The word also made him feel hate, sincere hate, for those so labeled.
She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.
After that they had sat for five minutes without saying a word.
Here is a word of advice when you go shopping for your pansy seeds.
Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.
You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.
`` Be careful of the word ' gay ', for it, too, has undergone a change.
The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.
Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.

word and us
Solemnly he walked me back to Alfred's house without a word passing between us.
Of his own will he has begotten us by the word of truth.
Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
In this section we consider codes, which encode each source ( clear text ) character by a code word from some dictionary, and concatenation of such code words give us an encoded string.
The word horologia ( from the Greek ὡρα, hour, and λέγειν, to tell ) was used to describe all these devices, but the use of this word ( still used in several Romance languages ) for all timekeepers conceals from us the true nature of the mechanisms.
Glass platter inscribed with the Hebrew word zakhreinu-remember us
" And this food is called among us Εὐχαριστία Eucharist ... For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these ; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh .”
Moreover, the Apocalypse tells us that its author was on the island of Patmos " for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus ", when he was honoured with the heavenly Revelation contained in the Apocalypse ( Revelation 1: 9 ).
While this may at first seem a simple task, he then goes on to lead us through the problems with each of the possible definitions of the word " game ".
Wittgenstein rejects the idea that ostensive definitions can provide us with the meaning of a word.
Lee said " Steve Lillywhite is really not a man of his word .... after agreeing to do our record, he got an offer from Simple Minds, changed his mind, blew us off ,... so it put us in a horrible position.
The word " yeast " comes to us from Old English gist, gyst, and from the Indo-European root yes -, meaning boil, foam, or bubble.
His word reaches us in the measure of our involvement in the evolution of history.
: The sacred authors wrote the four Gospels, selecting some things from the many which had been handed on by word of mouth or in writing, reducing some of them to a synthesis, explaining some things in view of the situation of their churches and preserving the form of proclamation but always in such fashion that they told us the honest truth about Jesus
The additional speech sounds that the human tongue enables us to produce, particularly, allow humans to unconsciously infer the length of the vocal tract of the person who is talking, a critical element in recovering the phonemes that make up a word.
* Say ( O Muhammad ): " O people of the Scripture: Come to a word that is just between us and you, that we worship none but God, and that we associate no partners with Him, and that none of us shall take others as lords besides God.
" The word psychogeography, suggested by an illiterate Kabyle as a general term for the phenomena a few of us were investigating around the summer of 1953, is not too inappropriate.
Looking up the word " patronizing " then gives us:
His name points to a Proto-Indo-European root which gives us words for thunder or related concepts even today, for instance the Old English " Thunores Dæg " ( Thursday ), as well as dedication to the god and tórnach, the Irish word for thunder.

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