mere+words

  • 21List of English words with disputed usage — Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious between writers on usage and prescriptive commentators. The contentious usages are especially common in spoken English. While in some circles the usages below may make the speaker… …

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  • 22Yiddish words used by English-speaking Jews — Yiddish words may be used in a primarily English language context. An English sentence that uses these words sometimes is said to be in Yinglish, however the primary meaning of Yinglish is an anglicism used in Yiddish. This secondary sense of the …

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  • 23hard words — is a semi technical term for what it immediately suggests, long and difficult words that are often derived from Latinate rather than English sources, such as rebarbative (= repellent) and nugatory (= futile, trifling). The first English… …

    Modern English usage

  • 24verba mere aequivoca, si per communem usum loquendi in intellectu certo summuntur, talis intellectus praeferendus est — /varba miriy akwivakeyta, say par kamyuwnam yuwsam lowkwenday in intalekt(y)uw sartow samantar, teylas intalektas prefarendas est/ [In the case of] words merely equivocal, if they are taken by the common usage of speech in a certain sense, such… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 25Verba mere aequivoca, si per communem usum loquendi in intellectu certo sumuntur, talis intellectus praeferendus est — (Civil law.) The words being merely equivocal, if by common usage of speech they take a certain meaning, such meaning is to be preferred …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 26empty words — noun loud and confused and empty talk mere rhetoric • Syn: ↑palaver, ↑hot air, ↑empty talk, ↑rhetoric • Derivationally related forms: ↑palaver (for: ↑ …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 27God in Buddhism — Since the time of the Buddha, the refutation of the existence of a creator has been seen as a key point in distinguishing Buddhist from non Buddhist views. [B. Alan Wallace, Contemplative Science. Columbia University Press, 2007, pages 97 98.]… …

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  • 28The 36 tattvas — In Kaśmir Śaivism, the 36 tattvas describe the Absolute, its internal aspects and the creation including living beings, down to the physical reality. The addition of 11 supplemental tattvas compared to the IAST|Sāṃkhya allows for a richer, fuller …

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  • 29CONTRACT — (Heb. חוֹזֶה, ḥozeh), in general law theory a legally binding agreement between two or more parties, in terms of which one party undertakes for the benefit of the other to perform or refrain from a certain act. As such, contract is the main… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 30OBLIGATIONS, LAW OF — This law is concerned with the rights of one person as against those of another (jus in personam), as distinguished from the law of property, which is concerned with a person s rights in a chattel or other property as against the world at large… …

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