pulchritudinous adjective formal uk /ˌpʌl.krɪˈtʃuː.dɪ.nəs/ us /ˌpʌl.krəˈtuː.dən.əs/ (especially of a woman) beautiful SOURCE: Cambridge Dictionary What a very strange sounding word indeed; a mouthful, an almost guttural sounding word which to me summons up similar sounds such as decrepitude, sepulchre, putridness. Ironic really how such an ugly sounding word […]
Word of the Week: Sibilance
noun phonetics literary or specialized uk /ˈsɪb.ɪ.lənts/ us /ˈsɪb.ɪ.lənts/ the fact of making a “s” or “sh” sound SOURCE: Cambridge Dictionary It’s funny because the word sibilance almost describes itself, creating a hissing sound as it rolls off the tongue. Does this make the word sibilance a form of onomatopoeia? IE – the act of creating or using words that include sounds that […]
Word of the Week: transubstantiation
The changing of one substance into another (often with allusion to sense 2 below.)
The conversion in the Eucharist of the whole substance of the bread into the body and of the wine into the blood of Christ, only the appearances (and other ‘accidents’) of bread and wine remaining: according to the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church.
