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יִשְׂרָאֵל
Meaning: Israel
Translit: Yis•ra•el
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Nascent
Nas•cent
/ˈnāsənt,ˈnasənt/
adjectiveadjective: nascent
- (especially of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.”the nascent space industry”synonyms:just beginning, budding, developing, growing, embryonic, incipient, young, in its infancy, fledgling, evolving, emergent, emerging, rising, dawning, advancing, burgeoning;rarenaissant”the nascent economic recovery”
- CHEMISTRY(chiefly of hydrogen) freshly generated in a reactive form.
Origin
early 17th century: from Latin nascent- ‘being born’, from the verb nasci .
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Mirific
mirific
adjective
mi·rif·ic | (ˈ)mī¦rifik
variants: or less commonly mirifical -fə̇kəl
Definition of mirific
: working wonders : marvelous
his mirific adventures
— W. J. Locke
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wraith
[rāTH]
NOUN
wraiths (plural noun)
a ghost or ghostlike image of someone, especially one seen shortly before or after their death.
synonyms:
ghost · specter · spirit · phantom · apparition · manifestation · vision · shadow · presence · poltergeist · supernatural being · bodach · duppy · spook · shade · visitant · revenant · phantasm · wight · eidolon · manes · lemures
used in reference to a pale, thin, or insubstantial person or thing.
“heart attacks had reduced his mother to a wraith”
literary
a wisp or faint trace of something.
“a sea breeze was sending a gray wraith of smoke up the slopes”
ORIGIN
early 16th century (originally Scots): of unknown origin.
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ap·pa·ri·tion
[ˌapəˈriSH(ə)n]
NOUN
apparitions (plural noun)
a ghost or ghostlike image of a person.
synonyms:
ghost · phantom · specter · spirit · wraith · shadow · presence · vision · hallucination · bodach · Doppelgänger · duppy · spook · phantasm · shade · revenant · visitant · wight · eidolon · manes
the appearance of something remarkable or unexpected, typically an image of this type.
“twentieth-century apparitions of the Virgin”
synonyms:
appearance · manifestation · materialization · emergence · visitation · arrival · advent
ORIGIN
late Middle English (in the sense ‘the action of appearing’): from Latin apparitio(n-) ‘attendance’, from the verb apparere ( see appear).
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