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lachrymose
adjective
suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
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The spelling lachrymose, 鈥渟uggestive of or causing tears,鈥� is enough to make a person downright weepy. Lachrymose is a learned misspelling of Latin 濒补肠谤颈尘艒蝉耻蝉 鈥渨eeping, tearful, in tears,鈥� a derivative of the noun lacrima 鈥渁 tear, weeping, lament.鈥� In preclassical Latin the form was dacrima, which is the original form, lacrima the innovation (as with original Odysseus, the innovative Ulixes, and the hybrid Ulysses). Old Latin dacrima is related to the Greek noun 诲谩办谤测辞苍, the 鈥渆veryday鈥� word for tears, but it looks quite close to the rare, poetic Greek noun 诲谩办谤测虅尘补 (with a long upsilon) 鈥渟omething to be wept over, a matter for tears鈥� (uttered by the oracle of Delphi). The association of lacrima, dacrima, and 诲谩办谤测虅尘补 was enough to allow medieval scribes to innovate the pseudo-Greek spelling 濒补肠丑谤测尘艒蝉耻蝉. Lachrymose entered English in the second half of the 17th century.
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But otherwise this modernized remake of Miss Hurst’s frankly lachrymose tale is much the same as its soggy predecessor. It is the most shameless tear-jerker in a couple of years.
Letter to You聽is rich in lessons for those who want to know what successful aging looks like. Far from being sad or lachrymose, it鈥檚 both youthful鈥攍oud and hard-charging鈥攁nd serene and wise.
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uitwaaien
noun
the Dutch practice of jogging or walking into the wind, especially in the winter, for the purpose of feeling invigorated while relieving stress and boosting one鈥檚 general health.
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The Dutch compound word uitwaaien means 鈥渢o jog or walk into the wind, especially in the winter, in order to feel invigorated, relieve stress, and boost one鈥檚 health鈥� (others prefer sitting in cozy coffeehouses or quiet neighborhood bars). Uitwaaien is composed of the preposition and prefix uit 鈥渙ut鈥� (its pronunciation is not much different from English out) and the verb waaien 鈥渢o blow.鈥� Waaien comes from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Sanskrit 惫腻虂迟颈 鈥�(it is) blowing,鈥� Latin ventum 鈥渨ind,鈥� Germanic (English) 鈥渨eather, wind,鈥� and Slavic (Polish) wieje 鈥�(it is) blowing.鈥� Uitwaaien entered English in the first decade of the 21st century.
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鈥�Uitwaaien is something you do to clear your mind and feel refreshed鈥攐ut with the bad air, in with the good,鈥� she tells me.
听鲍颈迟飞补补颈别苍 is a long-standing cultural tradition of integrating nature with daily life for the intentional purpose of mental clarity and the promotion of feelings of wellbeing.
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harbinger
noun
anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign.
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The modern spelling harbinger 鈥渁n omen, sign, or herald,鈥� has an internal –n– from the Middle English variant spellings herbengar, herbenger, which arose in the second half of the 15th century. This –n– also appears, for example, in messenger (from message) and passenger (from passage). The many Middle English spellings include herbeg(e)our, herberger, herbergio(u)er. The noun originally referred to an officer of a king or nobleman who assigned lodgings to guests or rode ahead to arrange lodgings, or to a military officer who laid out encampments, or to a soldier who was part of the vanguard. Harbinger later came to mean simply 鈥渉ost, hospitable person.鈥� The Middle English forms come from Old French herbergeor, herberg(i)ere 鈥渙ne who offers lodging, host, innkeeper,鈥� from Frankish heriberga 鈥渓odging, inn鈥� (in Old Saxon and Old High German 鈥渟helter for an army鈥�). The Old English equivalent, herebeorg 鈥渜uarters, shelter, lodgings,鈥� survives in English as harbor. Harbinger entered English in the second half of the 12th century.
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Last Groundhog Day, Phil did not see his shadow, a supposed harbinger of an early spring. Yet, bitter cold and snow affected the eastern U.S. deep into March.
The collapse of MDC Energy鈥檚 business turned out to be a harbinger of things to come. The coronavirus pandemic has brought a wave of bankruptcies to the oil and gas industry鈥攅ven as industry executives first reward themselves with multimillion-dollar bonuses.
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