Last week, the Guardian's Hadley Freeman argued that "empowerment" had lost its meaning, citing selfies and Spanx as just two examples in which women have had empowerment marketed to them.
Put it another way, IP is aimed at explaining the way in which learners seek to absorb grammatical forms while focusing on meaning (VanPatten, cited in Nassaji and Fotos 2011).
For the 18th-century meaning, he cites the original Johnson, the one named Samuel, in his 1773 dictionary.
An article on May 15 about annuity sales practices omitted a word in some copies, thus reversing the meaning, in citing a company's response to a California officials' lawsuit accusing one of its units, among other defendants, of tricking retirees into using their retirement investments to buy annuities.
To get there, Kidd and fellow empiricists Riddhi Sohan Dasgupta, Ryan Walters and James Phillips scoured published opinions from a legal database and crunched the instances when each of Trump's potential nominees paid homage to Scalia ― by, say, writing about the Constitution's so-called original meaning or citing his treatise on interpreting the law. .
The designation is used relatively rarely and only for "controlling or persuasive authority," meaning that the cited decision played a substantial role in shaping the later decision.
But the specific phrase let's roll in its current meaning was first cited in the 1952 novel "The Tightrope," by Stanley Jules Kauffman: " 'Let's roll, dreamer,' said Perry".
In a speech a week ago, he spoke of the "solitude of power" and its "illusions," quoted the French writer Paul Valéry on the meaning of history, cited Nelson Mandela and said: "Our defense and security forces are in the avant-garde of democracy, which guarantees us more dignity and a better future".
(That second syllable guk or kuk, meaning "nation," is sometimes cited as a possible root of the ethnic slur gook, but most such slurs have a variety of speculative etymologies, and dictionaries list this one as "origin unknown").
Whatever may be the legal meaning of detainee, first cited in 1928, the Latin root of detain is tenere, "to hold," and the verb means "to hold temporarily, usually in an emergency," a far cry from "imprison," which connotes longer or more severe confinement.
