Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An instance or a place of great suffering.
Etymologies
- After Gethsemane . (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As though the main trouble were not enough, the poor little wife was further smitten with the two-edged mental anguish which is the experience of sensitive women whose husbands neglect them at this crisis of the maternal gethsemane.”
“But at gethsemane Church in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg in what is now the most fashionable district of the former east, she said Germany still bears the scars of division.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gethsemane’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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religion
who is this god person, anyway? (--Douglas Adams)
sachristy, vestry, diocese, papal, cardinal, pope, polygamy, seven, father, chaplain, vestments, blessing and 227 more...
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Tip-Top Toponymic
Place names that have entered general speech. Toponyms that interest me in other ways are on Place Names Of Distinction
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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je les adore!
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
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Australian
words not found in other
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Love
A general collection of the sort of words that make me happy when I hear or read them in everyday conversation and writing.
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I like: G
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lessons from Der Zauberberg
Words I found when reading "Der Zauberberg" by Thomas Mann (in swedish).
moribund, sine pecunia, placet expiriri, quietism, vatermörder, idiosyncrasy, otium, Eulenspiegel, asthenia, roué, dodecatemory, fulminant and 19 more...
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metaphorical places
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Tweets
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bilby I discovered today I've been mispronouncing this word since forever :-( Although, if anything, I find the correct pronunciation even more evocative. Dec 22, 2007