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insipience
noun
Archaic.
lack of wisdom; foolishness.
More about insipience
Insipience 鈥渇oolishness鈥� comes via Old French from Latin insipientia. The Latin prefix in-, which has a negative or privative force, as in insipientia, is the ordinary Latin development of a reduced form of Proto-Indo-European ne 鈥渘ot,鈥� which is the same source of Germanic (English un-). The Latin stem –sipient– is a reduced and combining form derived from sapientia聽鈥渞eason, soundness of mind, wisdom,鈥� hence 颈苍蝉颈辫颈别苍迟颈补听鈥渇oolishness, folly, stupidity.鈥� The root word behind sapientia and insipientia is sapere 鈥渢o taste, taste of, smell of, have good taste, feel, show good sense, be intelligent.鈥� Sapere is the source of Italian sapere, Spanish saber, and French savoir, all meaning 鈥渢o know.鈥� The Latin noun sapor 鈥渇lavor, taste, odor, smell鈥� becomes Italian sapore, Spanish sabor, French saveur, and, through French, English savor and its derivative adjective savory. Insipience entered English in the 15th century.
how is insipience used?
Too many prefer the charge of insincerity to that of insipience鈥擠r. Newman seems not to be of that number.
It has to be frustrating to know that you’re surrounded by intelligent, earnest individuals who are prone to moments of public insipience, usually when their fingers are on the voting button.
More about shog
The verb (and noun) shog 鈥渢o shake, jolt, to jog along鈥� is now used mostly in British dialect. The Middle English verb shogge(n) is possibly a variant of shock 鈥渢o strike, jar鈥� and is probably related to the Old High German noun scoc 鈥渁 swinging, a swing,鈥� Middle High German schock 鈥渁 swing, a seesaw,鈥� and Middle Dutch, Dutch schok 鈥渁 shake, a jolt.鈥� Shog entered English in the early 15th century.
how is shog used?
If you don’t mind I’ll shog on! I’ve got to walk fast now, or Gerda will be worrying.
Then shog along homeward, chat over the fight / And hear in our dreams the sweet music all night.
epiphonema
noun
Rhetoric.
a sentence that is an exclamation, a general or striking comment, or a succinct summary of what has previously been said.
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In classical rhetoric, epiphonema is a term for an exclamation or reflection that strikingly sums up a previous passage or discourse鈥攁 kind of moral of the story. It comes via Latin 别辫颈辫丑艒苍脓尘补 from Greek 别辫颈辫丑峁搉脓尘补 鈥渁 witty saying,鈥� from 别辫颈辫丑艒苍别卯苍 鈥渢o mention by name, call out, address,鈥� composed of a prefixal use of the preposition 别辫铆 鈥渦pon, on鈥� and 辫丑艒苍别卯苍 鈥渢o make a sound.鈥� 笔丑艒苍别卯苍 is derived from 辫丑辞苍岣� 鈥渟ound, tone, voice,鈥� ultimately seen in a variety of English words, such as Anglophone, microphone, phonetics, phonology, polyphony, and (tele)phone. Oh, what 别耻辫丑辞苍颈辞耻蝉听words derive from ancient Greek!
how is epiphonema used?
To round off his argument, Montaigne reaches for an epiphonema … “Oh, what a sweet and soft and healthy pillow is ignorance and incuriosity, to rest a well-made head!”
When the Great Teacher wished to recall or rouse attention he employed an epiphonema, saying, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear,” “Verily, verily, I say unto you,” “Hearken unto me every one of you.”