Sentences with phrase «early usages of the word»

She speculates that one reason gossip became associated with the conversation of women was that early usages of the word referred to the speech of women who attended at childbirth.

Not exact matches

Now this variety of usage in the biblical talk of God (and modern scholarship has shown that the biblical statements can not all be neatly fitted together into a systematic whole, in the way some earlier Christian thinkers assumed that to be possible) makes it clear that the Bible is not wedded to any particular form of words concerning God.

Not merely a dictionary of science fiction terms, this is a resource of all the words from science fiction that have been absorbed into popular culture, defining them from their earliest known appearance in science fiction writing through modern usage.

Usage of a Complex layout may look different in an earlier version of Ms. Word.