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There's a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent ...
Synonym: caco- phrenic. pantanencephaliac: (PAN-tuh-NEN-suh-FAY-lee-ak) a
person born without a brain, like the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz.
Pantanencephalia means total absence of brain. parvanimity: (PAR-vuh-NIM-i-
tee) the state ...
Charles Harrington Elster, 2005
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There's a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life
Synonym: caco- phrenic. pantanencephaliac: (PAN-tuh-NEN-suh-FAY-lee-ak) a
person born without a brain, like the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz.
Pantanencephalia means total absence of brain. parvanimity: (PAR-vuh-NIM-i-
tee) the state ...
Charles Harringto Elster, 1997
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Alternative Library Literature: A Biennial Anthology
(I would love to tell you what parvanimity means. I looked it up in the American
Heritage Dictionary and the Living Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of the
English Language, and I can't find it anywhere. If anyone knows what parvanimity
means ...
Sanford Berman, James Philip Danky, 1998
De Quincey claims to have coined parvanimity in 1830, as an antithesis to
magnanimity. Boyle used it, however, a century and a half earlier. Wotton first
uses Pasquinade in 1592. Of Pasquin, the coadjutor of Marforius, an excellent
account is ...
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A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry
194), but equally the parvanimity of his own people. The dry humour his
laconically precise tone can support so well is frequently aimed at the Welsh. In '
Welcome to Wales' the tourist is urged to 'Come to Wales / To be buried; the
undertaker ...
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The Uncollected Writings
... yet still, at times, when my moral sense is roused and provoked by the
obstinate blindness of Professor Wilson to the meanness and parvanimity * of
Bonaparte (a blindness which in him, as in all other worshippers of false idols, is
connected ...
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Little Red Book of Word Facts
Parvanimity is “meanness”. Pashminaisderivedfrom a Persian word meaning “
woollen”. Pasta isliterally “dough”or “paste”in Italian; pastefirst meant“dough” or “
pastry”. Pastime isderived from “pass time”. Patheticfirst meant “producing an ...
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209 - a Story: Some People Live Exceptional Lives
... growled with parvanimity and slowly lowered his weapon. Molly began to cry.
The little boy looked at the tears welling in her eyes. 'We will move on, Officer.
They did not mean any harm,' said Arthur exasperated with what had just
occurred.
W. parturient; ««<iuin"l, mnql-^jo, aicon elmiO. party-wall, n. (mffgfFi) - wall
between two houses; ^fr y<wiy1d WIMI^* fiitt. parvanimity, n. (iKoJlHtoifl) -
pettiness, meanness; pas, n. ('ns) - a step; ma^r, q?. a dance Step; -Jryidld mid.
pas'quinade, ...
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)
Parure, parür′,n. a set ofornaments,&c.[Fr.] Parvanimity, parvanim′iti, n.
littleness of mind. Parvenu, pär′venū, n.anupstart:one newlyrisen into notice
orpower.—adj. likeaparvenu. [Fr.,pa.p. of parvenir—L. pervenīre, to arrive at—per
, through ...
