10 LIVRES EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «VERECUND»
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verecund dans la sélection bibliographique suivante. Des livres en rapport avec
verecund et de courts extraits de ceux-ci pour replacer dans son contexte son utilisation littéraire.
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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
verecund [vare-i-kund] an adjective meaning 'shy, coy, bashful.' Other words that
end in -cund are the familiar fecund, 'fruitful,' irecund, 'passionate, angry,' and
namecund, 'famous.' However, these words are not closely related etymologically
.
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the ...
The faintest and palest greeu. Verdure, veV-jurc, ». 461. 376. Green, green
colour. Verdurous, vir'-ju-rus, a. 114. Green, covered with green. Verecund, vir'-e-
kuDd, a. Modest, bashful. See Facund. Verge, vt'rjc, s. A rod, or something In form
of ...
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Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Intellectuals: Synonyms, ...
Unless you just want to be a pencil-pusher all your life, you've got to stop being
such a MILQUETOAST, Arthur! verecund (VER-ih-kuhnd). Bashful; modest. Paul's
VERECUND manner makes it difficult to carry on a conversation with him.
David Olsen, Michelle Bevilacqua, 2011
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An English and Chinese standard dictionary: M-Z
Covered with green, fi * #r ^ 8S » £ 6«| 1 clothed with th« fresh colour of vegeta-
Wes,jlj.m.3Mc:£.3g&a(j > as, the verdurous hill, #m, Sill- Verecund, (ver'-e-kundl a
. Modest, fS21 tt,miw>tfi,&mtii bashful, mmMMm fft; as, the verecund maid, □kj-, ...
95 When the stem ends in d or t, it does not appear whether ia or tia be the true
suffix : as in modest-ia or modes(t)tia, verecund-ia or verecund(t)ia. Apart from
these, the suffix tia is confined, with few exceptions, to stems ending in o, which
then ...
Thomas Kerchever Arnold, 1855
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Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Students: Helpful, ...
Unless you just want to be a pencil-pusher all your life, you've got to stop being
such a MILQUETOAST, Arthur! verecund (VER-ih-kuhnd). Bashful; modest. Paul's
VERECUND manner makes it difficult to carry on a conversation with him.
David Olsen, Michelle Bevilacqua, Justin Cord Hayes, 2014
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
II Reverential, proceeding from reference, or expressing it IT Verecund, bashful,
modest. ** Converge, to tend to one point ; to incline and approach nearer
together, as two lines which continually approach each other. — opposed to
diverge.
John Oswald, John Miller Keagy, 1840
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Dictionary of Etymology of the English Language: And of ...
Verecund, bashful, modest. * Converge, to tend to one point ; to incline and
approach nearer together, as two lines which continually approach each other, —
opposed to diverge. Lines which converge in one direction, diverge in the other.
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Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Writers: Over 2,300 Emotive, ...
The Binghamtons just bought a lovely, UNASSUMING starter home in the town
where their families live. verecund (VER-ih-kuhnd). Bashful; modest. Paul's
VERECUND manner makes it difficult to carry on a conversation with him.
ANtoNyms ...
David Olsen, Michelle Bevilaqua, Justin Cord Hayes, 2014
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The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your ...
... ventose television weatherman ventripotent (ven-TRIP-o-tent) having a large
belly not a properly ventripotent Santa Glaus verecund (VER-ee-kund) shy or
bashful a surprisingly verecund policeman veridical (ve-RID-i-kal) truthful the
burden ...
