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octe commented on the word excuperate

Wyndham Lewis coinage

July 15, 2026

octe commented on the word etonym

…One of the secrets of poetic rhetoric in English is to romance the etonym (as it were), to renew what Walter Pater called the "finer edges" of words.

July 15, 2026

octe commented on the word extriction

“The proposed measures of the Chinese Government seem to me to furnish the best hope for our safe extriction from an unsound condition of things,”

See extrication

July 15, 2026

octe commented on the word immanentistic

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immanentistic

January 16, 2026

octe commented on the word duende

lacking wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/duende#English

January 13, 2026

octe commented on the word zenocentric

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zenocentric

zeno- +‎ -centric

Having Jupiter at the center.

January 5, 2026

octe commented on the word pericynthion

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pericynthion

The point in an elliptical orbit around the moon that passes closest to the moon

October 5, 2025

octe commented on the word locus amoenus

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/locus_amoenus

A literary motif of an idealised place of safety or comfort, typically comprising a meadow, trees (for shade) and water; sometimes evoking connotations of Eden or Elysium.

October 5, 2025

octe commented on the word pulamiter

"Man!” cried his wife, "don’t be such a pulamiter!”

Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence)

September 12, 2025

octe commented on the word googing

…Dean stood googing around with a towel, so did Marylou.

Jack Kerouak

September 12, 2025

octe commented on the word matroneum

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/matroneum

A gallery on the interior of a building, originally intended to accommodate women.