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juberous
adjective
uncertain and reluctant; dubious;聽undecided: I was feeling mighty juberous about crossing that bridge.
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The adjective juberous 鈥渦ncertain, hesitant, reluctant鈥� is supposedly a regionalism of the American Midwest鈥擨ndiana, in particular. Juberous is most likely a humorous alteration of dubious. It first occurs in The Hoosier School-Master (1871) by the American author and Methodist clergyman Edward Eggleston.
how is juberous used?
Tell you the truth, I been juberous about that loan proposition ever since Thad put his name to it.
I’m kind of juberous about letting you go at it; but maybe, if your sister looked after you, you could do a good job.
juberous
More about inanition
Inanition, 鈥渆xhaustion from lack of food, starvation; lethargy,鈥� comes from Middle English inanicioun, inanisioun, which has a somewhat different meaning, 鈥減athological emptiness of blood, humors, and fluids.鈥� Inanicioun in turn comes from Late Latin 颈苍腻苍颈迟颈艒 (stem 颈苍腻苍颈迟颈艒n-) 鈥渆mptiness,鈥� ultimately a derivative of the adjective 颈苍腻苍颈蝉 鈥渆mpty, void, hungry.鈥� In medical usage, Late Latin 颈苍腻苍颈迟颈艒 and Middle English inanicioun are frequently combined (or contrasted) with 谤别辫濒脓迟颈艒 (Latin) and Middle English replecioun, repleccioun, replesioun, 鈥渙verindulgence in food or drink, satiety; fullness or a pathological fullness of blood and humors.鈥� Inanition entered English at the end of the 14th century.
how is inanition used?
Sparky is never going to amount to anything. He hasn鈥檛 been practicing, and now, rather than face the consequences of his inanition, he is going to cheat.
There are a pair of weeping willows in the churchyard, very often rapturously astream in the wind, but which, on a hot, calm day, hang there for a moment in a gust of sudden awful inanition, like the stillness between two beats of one’s heart.
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epizeuxis
noun
a literary or rhetorical device that appeals to or invokes the reader鈥檚 or listener鈥檚 emotions through the repetition of words in quick succession.
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Epizeuxis is a Late Latin noun occurring for the first and only time in the damaged Ars Grammatica “Art of Grammar” by the grammarian Flavius Sosipater Charisius鈥攈is name alone is worth repeating鈥攚hose work is valuable only because it preserves extracts from earlier grammarians. Late Latin epizeuxis comes straight from Greek 别辫铆锄别耻虫颈蝉, a noun that is used only in technical subjects such as botany and rhetoric, and as a rhetorical term is quite rare, occurring only twice in two Greek grammarians. 贰辫铆锄别耻虫颈蝉 is a compound made up of the preposition and prefix 别辫铆, epi- 鈥渙n, upon, over鈥� and the noun 锄别没虫颈蝉 鈥測oking (of oxen), joining.鈥� 窜别没虫颈蝉 is formed from the verb 锄别耻驳苍媒苍补颈 鈥渢o yoke鈥�; its related noun 锄测驳贸苍 is from the same Proto-Indo-European source as Latin jugum, Germanic (English) yoke, Hittite yugan, Sanskrit 测耻驳谩尘 (鈥測oke, pair鈥�; a related form yields Sanskrit yoga- 鈥渦nion,鈥� English yoga). The final element, -sis, is a Greek suffix forming action nouns from verbs. The form -sis is the Attic Greek form of earlier -tis, preserved in some of the more conservative Doric dialects. The suffix -tis is related to the Latin suffix -tis, as in vestis 鈥渃lothing鈥� (compare vestment), from the verb 惫别蝉迟墨谤别 鈥渢o dress, clothe,鈥� and hostis 鈥渟tranger, enemy鈥� (yielding English hostile). Epizeuxis entered English in the late 16th century.
how is epizeuxis used?
You might know epizeuxis best from聽Hamlet: When Polonius asks the prince what he is reading, Hamlet replies, “51吃瓜s, words, words.”
When we see epizeuxis, we hear the voice of any great leader or powerful person. When we see amplification, we hear a voice full of emotion. When we see anastrophe, we think, of course, of Yoda.
epizeuxis