10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JEJUNE»
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1
The State of the Language
Stage h A writes (let us say): His arguments are unoriginal and jejune. (A knows
that "jejune" means "thin, unsatisfying," a rare word, admittedly, but one with a
nice ring to it.) Stage II: B notices the nice ring. He doesn't know what the word ...
Leonard Michaels, Christopher B. Ricks, 1980
2
100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know
Not interesting; dull: “Let a professor of law or physic find his place in a lecture
room, and there pour forth jejune words and useless empty phrases, and he will
pour them forth to empty benches” (Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers). 2.
Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries, 2003
3
Speaking of Writing: Selected Hopwood Lectures
At about age thirteen, as I recall, I became intrigued by words that began with j.
They looked marvelous to me . . . jaded . . . jejune ... I didn't even know how to
pronounce "jejune" — in fact, to this day I have never heard anyone use ...
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Garner's Modern American Usage
Language-Change Index Jehoshaphat misspelled ✳Jehosophat: Stage 1 jejune /
jә-joon/ = (1) shallow, insubstantial, dull, insipid; (2) (of nourishment or
agricultural lands) scanty, meager, barren; or (3) puerile, childish. Jacques
Barzun ...
Ardent soon caught up to Jejune who was standing near Tome's bedding. The
thought of the dying soldier was still on his mind. “I will have to find where he
lives and give his message to his wife, Harmony,” Ardent said to himself. “Tome
does ...
6
The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories
Applied to land or prose, it meant 'barren'. In English, jejune is first attested in the '
fasting' sense in the early seventeenth century, but in time the connotations
radiating out from the further sense of 'undernourished', such as 'flat, vapid', came
to ...
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The Heartbeat of Intelligence
Chapter. 5. THE. JEJUNE. SOCIETY. One of the most terrible tolls of our modern,
unnatural way of life, is the fact that we impose upon ourselves the most
heartbreaking, ravaging kind of old age possible. The Heartbeat ofIntelligence
Webster ...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ...
One species, /. diphylla, native of North America. JEJUNE, \ Lat. jejunus, which
Martinius Je'junely, ( derives from the Gr. Kevo-eiv, eva- Je'juneness, (cuare, to
empty, for he is jejune, Je'junity. / whose belly is empty of food. Jejune ; empty,
and ...
Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1845
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
JEJUNE, adj. [jejtmui, I-at.] 1. Wanting ; empty, vacant. — Gold is the only
substance which hath nothing in it volatile, and yet melteth without much difficulty
; the melting showeth that it is not jejune, or scarce in spirit. Bacon. 3. Hungry ; not
...
Once the Jimmy Eat World guys heard them, they were fans of Jejune. It turned
out the members of Jejune were fans of Jimmy Eat World as well. Though
centrally based in Boston, Jejune singer/guitarist Joe Guevara relocated to San
Diego ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JEJUNE»
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Powerful Meek One | The Nation
My esteem of Vithanage having been somewhat dented after his bland and somewhat jejune Akasa Kusum (2009), I was nearly forsaking the ... «nation.lk - The Nation Newspaper, Jul 15»
Movie Review: Irrational Man -- Vulture
Intellectually, it's jejune — or at least high in jejunosity. But if you can manage to keep your eye-rolling in check, you might find yourself getting ... «Vulture, Jul 15»
Progress is a slippery notion in politics and history | rabble.ca
... over jejune Keynesianism (Andrew Coyne in the National Post); while for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, the Iran deal was a "historic mistake. «rabble.ca, Jul 15»
Keeping score in history: who won this week?
... over jejune Keynesianism (Andrew Coyne in the National Post); while for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, the Iran deal was a “historic mistake. «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
Learning from our failure at weaponizing anthropology
Media propagandists were also furnished by the US Army itself, such as Robert Bateman (notorious for his many jejune comments and threats ... «Fabius Maximus website, Jul 15»
Of Buhari's Friends and Fiends – By Remi Oyeyemi
They are jejune, impulsive and patsy. They are unduly enthusiastic, careless and trusting. This group in question consist the brains behind the ... «Osun Defender, Jul 15»
“The Biscuit Eaters” · The Spoils Before Dying · TV Review · The A.V. …
Hitler's movement destroyed works of art, but not remotely “all of it, all of it”; it's the author's jejune fancy that only a single piece of sculpture ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Jul 15»
'Mad Women' review: Film is perverted but boring, worth zero stars
Toward the end of this flat, jejune, amateurish family drama, Nevada observes that “a good movie is one that you can identify with.” By this time ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
Armada by Ernest Cline: Follow-up to Ready Player One, reviewed.
The shameless, jejune wish-fulfillment of the book burns hot and bright, from the moment our young gamer hero gets summoned to space from ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
June 2015 Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales
... configurator to come online in a couple weeks, and production not too much later…although that is really jejune to this Model S sales report. «BMWBLOG, Jul 15»
