Wondrous Words. Words New To Me #6
Today I’m sharing 4 words. Although I heard eschatology before and understood its meaning from the reading I was doing, but, even so, I’ve decided to include it. Mores is a word I was puzzled about and didn’t get its meaning from the reading, so I had to search. I like the sound of it.
All the words I’m sharing today are from readings I did for university. None of these were from books I finished, as I read chapters, primary sources, or articles. I didn’t make notes from where I read them, so for only one I know it was from a primary source.
eschatology is a part of theology concerned with the end of times, the end of world sort of thing.
This must be a word known to people who read on religion.
mores encompasses social norms that are widely observed within a society or culture. Mores offer an insight in what is acceptable and what is not within that culture.
I read this word in a primary source from the 18th century, so I don’t think it is used today very often.
sibset is a group of siblings.
Considering that the known search engine was suggesting subset in maths as an alternative, I imagine sibset is not a word widely used these days.
abeyance is a state of temporary disuse or suspension. It is used in connection with property, titles, or an office.
Were you familiar with any of these words?
Always fun to see this kind of post! Not surprisingly, I knew eschatology and I was also familiar with mores. Abeyance is a word that I’ve heard, but I couldn’t have put a definition to it. I’ve never heard the word sibset before, but I like it. (my autocorrect tried to change it to subset)
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Autocorrect is very keen on maths, isn’t it? 🙂 I think from these 4 mores is my favourite, one I would like to remember.
It was half and half for me this time —- I know both ‘abeyance’ and ‘mores’, however the other two are both new to me —- ‘abeyance’ is still quite widely used I think, however I do get some queries and question marks when I use ‘mores’ either in a post, or in my general vocabulary, which I seem to quite often —- ‘eschatology’ and ‘sibset’ were both new to me, but given the state of the world right now and the way it looks to be heading, perhaps I should bone up on ‘eschatology’ just in case I need it soon! —–
I really must try and make time to publish a WWW post again one of these days! —- Thanks for sharing and Happy Reading 🙂
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Eschatology should be very on-trend indeed. :))