Unlatinate

Synonyms for "unlatinate" (2 found)

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Ingemuitque aedificavitque aras in monte Chelion... (Prinz, p.139) The very unlatinate use of double -que could well reflect an attempt to imitate the Greek connective particles τε. . . τε.

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In a world where Latin was not universally used, despite its dominance in certain contexts, feminized domesticity, potentially pemicious in its own right, becomes even more menacing when understood as vernacular, un-Latinate, and un-improving, and the educational institution, personified by the teacher, becomes all-important for the formation of character and mind.

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And had we but known it, the 1960s were just round the corner with their real reach-out-by-translation committees to intelligibly plain speech in half as many syllables, whether in the New English Bible's: 'The earlier rules are cancelled as impotent and useless' or the Good News Bible's firmly unlatinate: 'The old rule then is set aside, because it was weak and useless.'

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The next chapter will investigate how this Benedictine identity is constructed through the creation of a caricatured other: the ignorant, unsophisticated, and unLatinate secular cleric.

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