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WORD FOR THE DAY(8/20/18)Orgulous
Merriam Webster | 8/20/18

Posted on 08/19/2018 4:55:10 PM PDT by left that other site

WORD FOR THE DAY(8/20/18)Orgulous

adjective OR-gyuh-lus



Word of the Day : May 28th, 2018

Orgulous

adjective OR-gyuh-lus

Definition

: proud

Did You Know?

"In Troy, there lies the scene. From Isles of Greece / The princes orgulous, their high blood chaf'd, / Have to the port of Athens sent their ships." Thus William Shakespeare begins the Trojan War tale Troilus and Cressida, employing orgulous, a colorful word first adopted in the 13th century from Anglo-French orguillus. After the Bard's day, orgulous dropped from sight for 200 years; there is no record of its use until it was rejuvenated by the pens of Robert Southey and Sir Walter Scott in the early 1800s. 20th-century authors (including James Joyce and W. H. Auden) continued its renaissance, and it remains an elegant (if infrequent) choice for today's writers.

Examples

The hotel manager tended to adopt an orgulous air with those guests who were not regular visitors and who might be unaware of the building's rich and storied history.

"He astutely recognized that intimate relations with the orgulous Kennedys could only heighten his influence. Indeed, apart from Robert Kennedy and Douglas Dillon, McNamara was the only member of Kennedy's Cabinet to enter the president's social life." — Jacob Heilbrunn, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 1993



TOPICS: Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: orgulous; wftd; wordfortheday
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.

MY ENTRY: I hate debating with rude, orgulous leftists who spout platitudes and talking points without any respect for facts.

1 posted on 08/19/2018 4:55:10 PM PDT by left that other site
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To: secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; TruthShallSetYouFree; theDentist; ...

Hi everyone...I have an early lesson tomorrow so I am posting tomorrow’s word today.


2 posted on 08/19/2018 4:56:19 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: left that other site

Wasn’t Orgulous - you know, Trump’s ex-apprentice, the one who was actually fired from Clinton’s White House as being incompetent - on all of the national socialist party’s talk shows recently?

Not very pretty. I’d certainly not be proud of such an orguglious personality.


3 posted on 08/19/2018 5:09:09 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

The alleged person to whom you refer is indeed an orgulous ogre.


4 posted on 08/19/2018 5:13:16 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: left that other site
With apologies to G. K. Chesterton and Iron Maiden:

Oh, God of Earth and Altar, bow down and hear our cry
Our earthly rulers falter, our people drift and die
The walls of gold entomb us, the swords of scorn divide
Take not thy thunder from us, take away our orgulousness


5 posted on 08/19/2018 5:31:33 PM PDT by snarkpup ("We live in an open-sky psychiatric hospital." - Jean-Francois Gariepy)
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To: left that other site

Almost sounds like Woody Allen’s favorite word...


6 posted on 08/19/2018 5:41:50 PM PDT by W. (Hey, beer!)
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To: left that other site

The Few, The Proud, The Marines.
Pee-Yew, the orgulous Greens


7 posted on 08/19/2018 5:52:58 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: snarkpup

I hung out with Nicko. He was not orgulous at all, but a really nice guy!


8 posted on 08/19/2018 6:10:53 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: W.

YIKES!


9 posted on 08/19/2018 6:11:12 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Panzerlied

Is that a real song? LOL!


10 posted on 08/19/2018 6:11:47 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: left that other site

:)
Hee, her! Oops... Actual typo!


11 posted on 08/19/2018 6:27:46 PM PDT by W. (Hey, beer!)
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To: W.

Then, would it not be an “Actual typa?”


12 posted on 08/19/2018 6:30:29 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Sumpin’ like that!


13 posted on 08/19/2018 6:50:04 PM PDT by W. (Brap!)
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To: left that other site

Just got in from work-

Obama’s many former minions-
Who were orgulous all this time
Are whining like spoiled children
With less means to make a dime

They are being made irrelevant
There may be another one today
To say that mean old pres Trump
Took their means of spying away

He’s lowered Brennan’s pricetag-
Raised Clapper’s and Rice’s fears-
The schadenfreude is made better
By the sight of howling and tears...


14 posted on 08/20/2018 1:22:20 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

(To the tune of “Ode To Joy”)

Schadenfreude, gut und funky
Zay gits zehr cummupinzee!
How I luff zat Schadenfreude
Ven it zat der DNC! :-)


15 posted on 08/20/2018 1:25:03 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: left that other site

Thank you! My best friend-and employer-and I were talking about schadenfreude being the best part of venganza en sangre fria and how we will make it happen to a mutual enemy soon-the tears from the public takedown will be delicious...


16 posted on 08/20/2018 1:38:50 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

A dish best served cold.


17 posted on 08/20/2018 6:15:56 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: left that other site

Precisely-en sangre fria-in cold blood-never in the heat of anger-poor planning in hot blood just gets you into trouble...


18 posted on 08/20/2018 7:32:16 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

Indeed.


19 posted on 08/21/2018 5:43:39 AM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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