sermo

Thucydides, she is commonly the best, de quo minimus foras habetur sermo, that is least talked of abroad.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

After a lot of work on this problem of decorum he invented his own serviceable version of what Eric Auerbach called sermo humilis, a lowly style, the very style the Evangelists wrote their Greek in; a simple, everyday manner that is faintly, appropriately, archaic as well.

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The second nocturn has lessons from a Father of the Church, here called sermo, a life of the saint on his feast, or a description of the event of the day.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

This, as well as his substitution of "sermo" for "verbum" in John i, 1, was fiercely assailed.

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

In the earlier Nuremberg gradual, the image is less elaborate, focusing on John himself, while the later Zurich gradual provides the saint with an audience, which anachronistically contains two Dominican nuns. 132 In the second and later example, the initial E in which the scene is placed begins the Exiit sermo, which closed the saints 'section within the Proper of the Saints.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

Auerbach's point in the essay you cite is not to say that "because of the Incarnation, Christians prefer sermo humilis."

The permanent home of language 2009

As for sermo humilis in modern Christian writing: consider C.S.

The permanent home of language 2009

In which sense it is not vocabulum that signifies a word, but sermo (in Greek logos) that is, some speech, discourse, or saying.

Leviathan 2007

Amatorius sermo vehemens vehementis cupiditatis incitatio est, Tatius l. 1. 5091.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Signa sunt cessatio ab omni opere insueto, privatio somni, suspiria crebra, rubor cum sit sermo de re amata, et commotio pulsus.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007