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probity
noun
integrity and uprightness; honesty.
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Probity, 鈥渋ntegrity and uprightness, honesty,鈥� comes via Old French 辫谤辞产颈迟茅 from Latin 辫谤辞产颈迟腻蝉 (inflectional stem 辫谤辞产颈迟腻迟-) 鈥渕oral integrity, uprightness, honesty; sexual purity,鈥� a derivative of the adjective probus. Probus is composed of pro– 鈥渇orward鈥� and –bhwo– 鈥済rowing,鈥� the entire word meaning 鈥済oing forward, growing well.鈥� The element –bhwo– comes from the very complicated Proto-Indo-European root 产丑别耻蓹-, bheu-, bhou-, bhwo-, 产丑奴– (with still more variants) 鈥渢o be, exist, become, grow.鈥� The root appears in Latin fuisse 鈥渢o have been,鈥� 蹿耻迟奴谤耻蝉 鈥渨hat is going to be, future,鈥� and 蹿墨别谤墨 鈥渢o become,鈥� English be and been, Lithuanian 产奴虂迟颈 鈥渢o be,鈥� Greek 辫丑媒别蝉迟丑补颈 鈥渢o grow, arise, become,鈥� and its derivatives 辫丑媒蝉颈蝉 鈥渘ature鈥� and 辫丑测蝉颈办贸蝉 鈥減ertaining to nature, natural.鈥� Probity entered English in the first half of the 15th century.
how is probity used?
For an instant he had been tempted to accept the carriage as a gift, but probity never deserted him for very long, not to mention an unrelenting awareness of the importance of the appearance of things.
Coolidge ended up serving twice as long as Harding in the White House, sanitizing the place with his dignified, even endearing probity.
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mellifluous
adjective
flowing with honey; sweetened with or as if with honey.
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Mellifluous comes from Late Latin mellifluus 鈥渇lowing with honey, (of a taste or scent) sweetened with or as if with honey,鈥� and by extension 鈥渆loquent, persuasive.鈥� Mellifluus is a compound of mel (inflectional stem mell-) 鈥渉oney鈥� and –fluus 鈥渇lowing,鈥� a derivative of fluere 鈥渢o flow.鈥� Mel is the Latin result of the Proto-Indo-European melit 鈥渉oney,鈥� which in Greek appears as 尘茅濒颈 (inflectional stem 尘茅濒颈t-). Melit– corresponds exactly with Hittite milit (from melit), Old Irish mil (also from melit). In the Germanic languages, an expanded form, melitom, yields Gothic milith 鈥渉oney,鈥� Old English 尘颈濒诲脓补飞, 尘别濒别诲脓补飞 鈥渉oney dew, nectar鈥� (in English, the mil– of mildew, which was thought to be distilled or condensed from air like dew). Mellifluous entered English in the 14th century.
how is mellifluous used?
As the bee flies from flower to flower, taking nectar from each blossom in order to make its mysterious, mellifluous conversion, so the poet should, according to Seneca, “blend those several flavors into one delicious compound …”
He is Mr. A. I. Kaplan, whose power to aid art came through his efficient conduct in the molasses business, about which mellifluous substance he knows more than anyone else in the world.
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festinate
verb (used with or without object)
to hurry; hasten.
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Festinate, a verb meaning 鈥渢o hurry, hasten,鈥� comes from Latin 蹿别蝉迟墨苍腻迟耻蝉, the past participle of the verb 蹿别蝉迟墨苍腻谤别 鈥渢o make haste, hasten, hurry.鈥� One of the emperor Augustus鈥檚 homely sayings was fest墨n膩 lent膿 鈥渕ake haste slowly.鈥� 贵别蝉迟墨苍腻谤别 comes from the Latin root festi-, from an unrecorded Italic root ferst-, from the uncommon Proto-Indo-European root bheres-, bhers– 鈥渜uick,鈥� source of Irish bras and Welsh brys, both meaning 鈥渜uick.鈥� In Slavic, bhers– appears in the Polish adverb bardzo 鈥渧ery,鈥� Czech brzo, 产谤锄媒 鈥渆arly, soon,鈥� and Russian 产辞谤锄贸沫 鈥渜uick, swift,鈥� also the name of a Russian breed of wolfhound. Festinate entered English as an adverb at the end of the 16th century, and as a verb in the mid-17th.
how is festinate used?
A bagatelle, ailing notes of a typochondriac, something to festinate the coming of spring or to take your mind off The Four Horsemen. Allons!
That night he had had the firm belief that he would never need to eat again as long as he lived, and he wandered around in the dark, keeping his legs moving in a desperate attempt to festinate digestion …
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