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stewardship
noun
the responsible overseeing and protection of something considered worth caring for and preserving: New regulatory changes will result in better stewardship of lands that are crucial for open space and wildlife habitat.
More about stewardship
Stewardship is a compound of the common noun steward 鈥渁 manager of someone鈥檚 property or finances鈥� and the native English suffix –ship, which denotes condition, office, or skill. From about the beginning of the 20th century, stewardship in many Christian denominations has acquired the sense 鈥渙bligation for the responsible use of time, money, and talents in the service of God and of one鈥檚 neighbor.鈥� Stewardship entered English in the 15th century.
how is stewardship used?
As the 50th anniversary of Earth Day approaches鈥攊n a year that feels unsettlingly bleak鈥攃ommitting ourselves to more active Earth stewardship seems a logical, fitting and entirely necessary outcome.
Stewardship means, for most of us, find your place on the planet, dig in, and take responsibility from there鈥攖he tiresome but tangible work of school boards, county supervisors, local foresters鈥攍ocal politics. 鈥� Get a sense of workable territory, learn about it, and start acting point by point.听
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More about taradiddle
Taradiddle (also tarradiddle), a slang term meaning 鈥渁 small lie, a fib鈥� has no clear etymology. The second element may be the verb diddle 鈥渢o move back and forth or up and down quickly鈥�; the first element tara– (or tarra-) has no explanation at all. Taradiddle (tarradiddle) entered English at the end of the 18th century.
how is taradiddle used?
“What are you?” “An engraver.” (This taradiddle I invented to account for the look of my hands.)
鈥淎 taradiddle is by definition a petty lie, a little falsehood or trifling told often to amuse or embellish a story,鈥� he said.听鈥淎s our world is full of them, seen and witnessed through advertising, P.R., propaganda, flirtations, staged events and presentations of all sorts, I simply came to the conclusion that even the straightest of photographs made in real-world witness was also such.鈥�
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ambages
noun
Archaic. (used with a plural verb)
winding, roundabout paths or ways.
More about ambages
The English noun ambages is usually used in the plural, just like its Latin original, 补尘产腻驳脓蝉. Both English and Latin nouns share the same meanings: 鈥渨inding, roundabout paths; prolix, ambiguous, or equivocating language.鈥� The Latin noun is a compound of the prefix ambhi– 鈥渁round, about, both鈥� (as in ambidextrous 鈥渁ble to use both hands equally well鈥�), and a derivative noun of the hard-working verb agere 鈥渢o lead, drive, act, do.鈥� Ambages entered English in the early 15th century.
how is ambages used?
A city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town. Its听ambages听of streets bewildered.
few readers, we apprehend, will have the resolution to keep him company to the end of his book, or to follow him through the ambages听of his descriptions, without occasional symptoms of weariness.
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