

Apr 16, 2014 This week's theme

Words coined after Shakespearean characters



This week's words

dogberry

portia

timon

romeo

prospero



Timon of Athens

Art: Nathaniel Dance, 1767 Photo: Joseph Haughey Words coined after Shakespearean characters A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



Timon PRONUNCIATION: (TY-muhn)

MEANING: noun: One who hates or distrusts humankind.

ETYMOLOGY: After Timon, the misanthropic hero of Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens. Earliest documented use: 1598.

USAGE: "My soul was swallowed up in bitterness and hate ... I saw nothing to do but live apart like a Timon."

Upton Sinclair; Prince Hagen; Heinemann; 1903.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)





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