2018年8月8日 · When the first Literarian Award was presented by The National Book Foundation, the executive director of the foundation was quoted as saying "A literarian is someone who loves literature so much that he or she wants to share it with as many people as possible, so this award is for those who dedicate their lives to love of literature" –

2022年2月26日 · OED: No dictionary entries found for ‘chremamorphism’.Find ‘chremamorphism’ in: » phrases (0) definitions (0) etymologies (0) quotations (0) full text (0), From Google Books: Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion: Early Greek religion By A & I Petrovic: The labels Empedocles uses are revealing, ... chrema is an oracle, and psephisma is a decree.

2017年8月16日 · Literature in this context is not used in its most common sense of "fiction and novels", but in a slightly more technical sense. From the OED: From the OED: (A body of) non-fictional books and writings published on a particular subject.

2020年8月4日 · "Quixotic" is rarely used literally to refer to Don Quixote specifically these days; without additional context, I would understand this to mean that whoever is the subject of this phrase has a quixotic attitude (aka stance) to something.

I have been reading The Lord of the Rings and came across this saying in the The Return of the King in the chapter “The Muster of Rohan”, which I’ve set in bold below: Merry bowed and went away

2015年4月8日 · Consider the prevalence of terms like popular culture, street art, pop music, family film.That's because culture, art, music, film don't have anything like the same strong connotations to superior or lasting artistic merit that literature has "built-in" (though admittedly, not so strongly as literary works, but that's an obvious derivative).

2018年9月17日 · The Oxford English Dictionary has the following definition for "cycle": A series of poems or prose romances, collected round or relating to a central event or epoch of mythic history and forming a continuous narrative; as the Arthurian cycle.

2018年3月18日 · meaning; literature. Related. 4. Meaning of "shot" cloth. 6. Meaning of "Let us hit with him, and not miss ...

2014年12月17日 · Weaken, soften, or make less valuable. Alloy (v.) is usually used to refer to the process of combining two metals so that the resulting alloy (n.) is in some way intermediate in characteristics between the two (although sometimes the alloy has characteristics that neither metal has, as is true with bronze being stronger than copper or tin).

2018年7月10日 · I'm not sure what native bottoms means in this paragraph from Thoreau's Walden. Is it a nautical term? Would someone kindly shed some light on this?