inimical, denarius, tendentious

I much regret that many Chinese authorities choose to consider any views that deviate from their own as inimical, aiming at harming China and offending the Chinese people. This has caused many of my colleagues, less outspoken than myself, to prefer to keep silent instead of entering into serious discussions that could have led to positive results. --- Göran Malmqvist 馬悅然 January 12, 2014

Not such a new term. You have to be careful about claiming coinage, as I learned to my rue (my 1970's baby, workfare, turned out to have been coined earlier; same with neuroethics). In 1883, W.H. Wynn wrote a homily that said '' Christianism -- if I may invent that term -- is but making a sun-picture of the love of God.'' He didn't invent the term, either. In the early 1800's, the painter Henry Fuseli wrote scornfully that ''Christianism was inimical to the progress of arts.''

British Museum

Roman general Mark Antony was born ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 83 BC, depicted on this silver denarius with Cleopatra http://ow.ly/Haxb6

參考翻譯

While one might be put off by Waite's highly tendentious political reading, the text is a stupendous work of scholarship, surpassing by far the many books on Nietzsche's influence. Indeed, this book is unlike any in the highly academic and often sterile ranks of Nietzsche-scholarship.





"When a wife's relations interpose against a husband who is a gentleman, who is proud, and who must govern, the consequences are inimical to peace. " (Little Dorrit,I, i, )


In the early 1800's, the painter Henry Fuseli wrote scornfully that ''Christianism was inimical to the progress of arts.'' And John Milton used it in 1649.

inimical 
adjective FORMAL
harmful or limiting:
Excessive managerial control is inimical to creative expression.

inimical 

Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɪmɪk(ə)l/ 

ADJECTIVE

1Tending to obstruct or harm:the policy was inimical to Britain’s real interests

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1.1Unfriendly; hostile:an inimical alien power

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inimically

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Origin

Early 16th century: from late Latin inimicalis, from Latin inimicus (see enemy).

tendentious

Line breaks: ten¦den|tious

Pronunciation: /tɛnˈdɛnʃəs/

Definition of tendentious in English:

ADJECTIVE

Expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one:[形]〈本・演説などが〉偏向した.a tendentious reading of history

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early 20th century: suggested by German tendenziös.

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tendentiously

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tendentiousness

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NOUN

denarius

[名]（複 -i・i 〔-iài〕）デナリウス.
1 古代ローマの銀貨. ▼略字d. は1971年まで((英))でpence, pennyの略号に用いた.
2 古代ローマの金貨.

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