;Posted on 09/29/2014 5:01:00 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 9/29/14
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
animus; noun
1. intense dislike; hatred; animosity
2. motive, intention, or purpose
3. (in Jungian psychology) the masculine principle present in the female unconscious See also anima
Etymology: 1820, "temper" (usually in a hostile sense), from Latin animus "rational soul, mind, life, mental powers; courage, desire," related to anima "living being, soul, mind, disposition, passion, courage, anger, spirit, feeling," from PIE root *ane- "to blow, to breathe" (cf. Greek anemos "wind," Sanskrit aniti "breathes," Old Irish anal, Welsh anadl "breath," Old Irish animm "soul," Gothic uzanan "to exhale," Old Norse anda "to breathe," Old English eðian "to breathe," Old Church Slavonic vonja "smell, breath," Armenian anjn "soul"). It has no plural. As a term in Jungian psychology for the masculine component of a feminine personality, it dates from 1923.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Here is my example with WFTD.
Anti-Christian animus kills.
No pushing at the door please!
Animus is not good for the soul. But it is all around.
True. It is corrosive, and nothing can contain it without being destroyed.
These powerful things must be transmuted into stable components that are actually reserves of energy and strength.
deep and true.
Except animus for the Ravens. That is healthy.
RME!
Not around here.
Bullwinkle wasn’t just animus; he was a non-sister-biting mus.
Ugh, what a horrible weekend for the sports fans here.
The Pirates drop two to give up any chance at the division. Wild Card game on Wednesday.
Penn State gets manhandled by Northwestern at home.
Pitt loses to 20-point underdog Akron at home.
And the Steelers can’t get a measly first down to save a victory over a team that gave up 56 points the week before. Time for coaches to start feeling the heat.
Animus is increasing towards Gov. Scott Walker’s challenger as more of her lies are exposed.
My husband spend part of the weekend erecting signs for the Governor and got nothing but high fives from passersby, as well as requests for more signs.
i can think of a few people i’d dearly love to kick right in the animus
i hope he will prevail. Barbara Comstock faces an ugly dem in our VA senate race here as well. A+++
But Obama reserves his animus for all-of-us, not the enemy of us. Or of the US. Whom he, and almost all of the democrat party, believes IS the enemy.
Sobering to go to a Mass up here in Saginaw Michigan, and here the priest proudly declare after Mass that “And I have always been a democrat! “ ... As if that were something to be proud of nowdays.
that too! A+++
heeheehee! like one animus said to the other ‘ain’t i a stinker?’
replied the other ‘no, but you’re a real a-hole!’
My animus for the Kenyan knows no bounds.
Good news is that we found a whole stash of excellent 4 x 8 Walker signs and stakes that someone had saved from the last 2 elections. They can be re-used and will save the Gov some money. They are in our barn, and now we just need a truck to transport.
Barack, on TV, is ubiquitous
His empty words generate animus
Deflect, dodge and lie
Pathetic! This guy
Is the lowest, the worst; He’s the minimus
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