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诲茅驳谤颈苍驳辞濒补诲别
noun
a quick deterioration or breakdown, as of a situation or circumstance.
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The rare noun 诲茅驳谤颈苍驳辞濒补诲别 鈥渁 quick deterioration or breakdown,鈥� comes unchanged from French. The French noun is a derivative of the verb 诲茅驳谤颈苍驳辞濒别谤 (earlier 诲茅蝉驳谤颈苍驳辞濒别谤) 鈥渢o tumble down.鈥� The prefix 诲茅– (诲茅s-) comes from the Latin prefix dis– 鈥渁part, asunder.鈥� The French noun suffix –ade ultimately comes from the Latin past participle suffix –腻迟耻蝉 (-腻迟补, –腻迟耻尘). The verb gringoler may be a borrowing of Middle Dutch crinkelen 鈥漷o curl, meander.鈥� 顿茅驳谤颈苍驳辞濒补诲别 entered English by the second half of the 19th century.
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The economically combatant nation entrenched themselves behind tariffs, played each other tricks with loans, repudiations, sudden inflations and deflations, and no power in the world seemed able to bring them into any concerted action to arrest and stop their common degringolade.
What鈥檚 more, they believe that聽things cannot go on as they are: That the trajectory we鈥檙e on will end in crisis, disaster, 诲茅驳谤颈苍驳辞濒补诲别.
nisus
noun
an effort or striving toward a particular goal or attainment; impulse.
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The rare noun nisus, a technical word used in various branches of philosophy and theology, comes directly from Latin 苍墨蝉耻s, a derivative of the verb 苍墨迟墨 and meaning 鈥渁 resting of one鈥檚 weight on the ground, planting one鈥檚 feet firmly, a strong muscular effort, pressure (of forces), an endeavor, strong effort.鈥� Nisus in the sense “effort” first appears at the end of the 17th century in the聽Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. In later usage nisus simply means “impulse.”
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The accumulation of wealth into a few hands is the nisus of all bad governments …
… in Aristotle’s teleological universe, every human being … has a kind of inner nisus toward a life of at least civic virtue …
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Fulgurant comes straight from Latin fulgurant-, the inflectional stem of 蹿耻濒驳耻谤腻苍蝉, the present participle of the verb 蹿耻濒驳耻谤腻谤别, originally an impersonal and intransitive verb meaning 鈥渋t lightens,鈥� then becoming personal and applied to Jupiter or the sky, and finally being applied generally (such as to orators) and meaning 鈥渢o shine, glitter.鈥� There are many Latin words for lightning, e.g., the noun fulmen (from an unrecorded fulgmen), which has its own derivative verb 蹿耻濒尘颈苍腻谤别 (like 蹿耻濒驳耻谤腻谤别, originally an impersonal and intransitive verb), whose past participle fulmin腻迟耻蝉 is the source of the English verb fulminate. And its present participle 蹿耻濒尘颈苍腻苍蝉 (inflectional stem fulminant-) is the source of the uncommon adjective fulminant, which has largely been replaced by 蹿耻濒尘颈苍补迟颈苍驳.听贵耻濒驳耻谤补苍迟 entered English in the first half of the 17th century.
how is fulgurant used?
To the left the draw-bridge slowly raised its broken span, the soft edges illumined by fulgurant lights of red and green.
The comedy has to arise from the daily disparities in which the playwright made her nest, from the way an irreverent mutter or a fulgurant non sequitur rends the conventional fabric of existence with a lightninglike tear.