Sentences with phrase «etymologies usually»

His major work, Origines, is an encyclopedia «organized on the principle that etymologies usually give information on the things to which the words refer.

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Actually, and in spite of what folk etymology might suggest, the word meritocracy is usually used to describe a system in which the «best» get promoted to positions of powers, not a system where a selected number of able people vote as a political body.
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