2024年6月20日 星期四

regress, egress, proper, societal , social, blood-curdling

The old "heartland" is comparatively small now, and deeply disadvantaged, not only economically but politically, too. For this deliberate and comprehensive societal exclusion, its denizens are blamed. I wonder how many years of hung parliaments – their texture changed only by the ebb and flow of property prices – it will take to create a party happy just to stand for those people, gaining enough seats not to win elections, but to be a force that represents their interest truthfully and eloquently, so they cannot be decently ignored.

societal ills


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After 21 rejections, "Lord of the Flies" was finally issued in 1954 as his first published book, and it remains his most popular.
It portrays a group of proper British schoolboys who, when marooned on a deserted island by a plane crash during a global atomic war, lose their societal inhibitions and regress into blood-curdling tribal savagery.




 Why women's right in China are regressing?


In this Hebrew medical diagram — from Tobias Cohen’s Ma’aseh Tuviyah (1708) — the human body is mapped onto a house: every organ in the man’s open torso is lettered; each letter matches with a room or architectural feature. The heart of the home can be found where “the master” resides: behind latticed windows, which are the lungs, on the top floor. The kitchen is the stomach, the site of early modern chemical processes that sound gastronomical, such as effervescence and fermentation. Toward the home’s egress, the digestive tract ends with plumbing — storage tanks and waterworks. More in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/body-as-house-diagram

societal

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Pronunciation: /səˈsʌɪɪt(ə)l/

adjective

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societally

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social

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Line breaks: so¦cial
Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊʃ(ə)l
 
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adjective

  • 1 [attributive] Relating to society or its organization: alcoholism is recognized as a major social problem the social structure of Europe had become more fluid
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  • 1.1Relating to rank and status in society: a recent analysis of social class in Britain her mother is a lady of the highest social standing
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  • 2Needing companionship and therefore best suited to living in communities: we are social beings as well as individuals
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  • 2.1Relating to or designed for activities in which people meet each other for pleasure: Guy led a full social life staff facilities included a social club and leisure complex
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sociality

Pronunciation: /ˌsəʊʃɪˈalɪti/
noun
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socially

adverb
the charity supports families who are socially disadvantaged
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Origin

late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin socialis 'allied', from socius 'friend'.

regress

Syllabification: re·gress

verb

Pronunciation: /riˈgres
 
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  • 1 [no object] Return to a former or less developed state: art has been regressing toward adolescence for more than a generation now
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  • 1.1Return mentally to a former stage of life or a supposed previous life, especially through hypnosis or mental illness: [no object]: she claims to be able to regress to the Roman era [with object]: I regressed Sylvia to early childhood
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  • 2 [with object] Statistics Calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of (a variable) against or on another variable.
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  • 3 [no object] Astronomy Move in a retrograde direction.

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈrēˌgres
 
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  • 2 Philosophy A series of statements in which a logical procedure is continually reapplied to its own result without approaching a useful conclusion (e.g., defining something in terms of itself).
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Origin

late Middle English (as a noun): from Latin regressus, from regredi 'go back, return', from re- 'back' + gradi 'walk'.


blood-curdling

(blŭd'kûrd'lĭng) pronunciation
adj.
Causing great horror; terrifying.

bloodcurdlingly blood'cur'dling·ly adv.




proper
(prŏp'ər) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Characterized by appropriateness or suitability; fitting: the proper knife for cutting bread; not a proper moment for a joke.
  2. Called for by rules or conventions; correct: the proper form for a business letter.
  3. Strictly following rules or conventions, especially in social behavior; seemly: a proper lady; a proper gentleman.
    1. Belonging to one; own: restored to his proper shape by the magician.
    2. Characteristically belonging to the being or thing in question; peculiar: an optical effect proper to fluids.
  5. Being within the strictly limited sense, as of a term designating something: the town proper, excluding the suburbs.
  6. Ecclesiastical. For use in the liturgy of a particular feast or season of the year.
  7. Mathematics. Of or relating to a subset of a given set when the set has at least one element not in the subset.
  8. Worthy of the name; true: wanted a proper dinner, not just a snack.
  9. Out-and-out; thorough: a proper whipping.
adv.
Thoroughly: beat the eggs good and proper.

n. Ecclesiastical also Proper
The parts of the liturgy that vary according to the particular feast or season of the year.

[Middle English propre, from Old French, from Latin proprius.]
properly prop'er·ly adv.
properness prop'er·ness n.
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