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辫谤茅惫别苍补苍肠别
noun
French.
special care in anticipating or catering to the needs and pleasures of others.
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Every breakroom in every restaurant in the U.S. should have prominently displayed a great big poster in bold sans serif caps: 鈥�辫谤茅惫别苍补苍肠别, special care in anticipating or catering to the needs and pleasures of others.鈥� 笔谤茅惫别苍补苍肠别 is a French noun meaning 鈥渢houghtfulness.” 笔谤茅惫别苍补苍肠别 is a derivative of the verb 辫谤茅惫别苍颈谤, one of whose meanings is 鈥渢o anticipate.鈥� 笔谤茅惫别苍颈谤 comes from Latin 辫谤补别惫别苍墨谤别 “to come before, anticipate,” a compound of the preposition and prefix prae, prae– 鈥渂efore, in advance鈥� and 惫别苍墨谤别 鈥渢o come.鈥� Prae惫别苍墨谤别 does mean 鈥渢o anticipate,鈥� but in the sense 鈥渢o forestall, prevent.鈥� 笔谤茅惫别苍补苍肠别 entered English in the 18th century.
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A much older and far wiser woman would have been persuaded to believe, as she believed, that in all this delicate 辫谤茅惫别苍补苍肠别 for her pleasures and her preferences the tenderest love had spoken.
My father I fear, was not remarkable in general for his tenderness or his 辫谤茅惫别苍补苍肠别 for the poor girl whom fortune had given him to protect; but from time to time he would wake up to a downright sense of kinship and duty ….
galvanize
verb (used with object)
to startle into sudden activity; stimulate.
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The English verb galvanize comes from the French verb galvaniser 鈥渢o make muscles contract by application of electrical current,鈥� a discovery made by the Italian physiologist Luigi Galvani in 1780, when an assistant touched the exposed sciatic nerve of a dead frog with a metal scalpel that had picked up a charge, which made the dead frog’s leg kick as if alive. Galvanize in its physiological sense entered English in the early 19th century; the figurative sense 鈥渢o startle into sudden activity鈥� dates to the mid-19th century.
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The presence of the enemy seemed to galvanize the growers, underscoring the subtext of Elliot’s message: that their industry was under attack, and they needed D&W’s crisis-management services.
… [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis] looms as just barely premodern, even though she presided over the start of (and maybe even helped galvanize) the most turbulent social transformation in recent history.
swashbuckler
noun
a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
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If one is old enough, the word swashbuckler will call to mind Errol Flynn, the baddest, most romantic swashbuckler of them all during Hollywood鈥檚 Golden Age. Others may think of the dueling swordsmen from The Princess Bride. Swashbuckler is a compound whose first element is swash, a verb of imitative origin meaning 鈥渢o splash loudly or violently, dash about.鈥� A buckler is a small round shield held by a handgrip and having straps through which one鈥檚 arm is passed. A swashbuckler is a swaggering hero who makes a racket by striking the bad guy鈥檚 shield with his own or with his sword. Swashbuckler entered English in the mid-16th century.
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Even聽Johnny Depp, the linchpin of the series as the swishy swashbuckler Captain Jack Sparrow, knew that the last film, directed by聽Gore Verbinski聽(as were the first two), had lost its way.
The fairy tale is about a swashbuckler named Westley (Elwes) who has to rescue his true love, Buttercup (Robin Wright), before she is forced to marry the evil Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon).