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A review of some terms useful in political analysis & polemics</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">pulchritudinous</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Definition</b> - physically beautiful</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">If the meaning of this word seems counterintuitive, it's probably because the word's Latin ancestor
<i class="">pulcher</i> ("beautiful") is unfamiliar, and <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pulchritudinous" class="">
<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.2px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(156, 0, 18);" class=""><i class="">pulchritudinous</i></span></a> sounds more disgusting than enchanting. We have been using
<i class="">pulchritude</i> to refer to beauty since the 15th century. <i class="">
Pulchritudinous</i> is a more recent addition to our language; its use dates to the early 18th century, and only began to be used to specifically refer to people’s beauty in the middle of the 19th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">The braided locks of the pulchritudinous fair ones, with their infinity of triple plaits, are lent to the mercies of the wind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">— <i class="">The Athenæum</i> (London, Eng.), 25 Sept. 1858</span></div>
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</i></b>(Keywords 110918) </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #242629" class=""><b class="">:
</b>having shapely buttocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">omphaloskepsis</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Definition</b> - contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation; also: lack of will to move, exert, or change: inertia</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">In Greek, <i class="">
omphalos</i> means “navel" and <i class="">skepsis</i> means “examination." Most of us are familiar with at least some words which the latter of these roots shares parentage with (<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skeptic" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.2px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(156, 0, 18);" class=""><i class="">skeptic</i></span></a>,
<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skepticism" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.2px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(156, 0, 18);" class=""><i class="">skepticism</i></span></a>), but
<i class="">omphalo-</i> words are considerably more rare. Among them are <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/omphaloid" class="">
<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.2px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(156, 0, 18);" class=""><i class="">omphaloid</i></span></a>, which is defined as “resembling an
<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/umbilicus" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.2px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(156, 0, 18);" class="">umbilicus</span></a> (“navel”).</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Football, tennis, and even cinemas by barbarians from the West has tended to lower the popularity of omphaloskepsis by encouraging extravert types of recreation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">— <i class="">The Times of India</i> (Mumbai, Ind.), 17 Feb. 1928</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">embourgeoisemen</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 30px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">t</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Definition</b> - a shift to bourgeois values and practices</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #9c0012; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embourgeoisement" class=""><i class="">Embourgeoisement</i></a></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">
almost always refers to a shift by the working class, not the upper class. The word was coined during the first half of the 20th century, when scholars noticed workers adopting the outlook and behavior of the middle class. For example, the new bourgeois might
have a declining interest in class consciousness and an increased interest in seeing gradual, not revolutionary, changes in society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">If this is true, we may expect to see a progressive embourgeoisement of the Soviet state; those educated and highly westernized intellectuals who once directed the fortunes of the “proletarian”
republic (Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Rakovsky, Radek, and their friends) must be submerged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">— Vincent Sheean, <i class="">The China Weekly Review</i>, 24 Mar. 1928</span></div>
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