Report /ripôrt’/ [L, re + portare, to carry], (in nursing) the transfer of information from the nurses on one shift to the nurses on the following shift
Sunday, April 23, 2006
My new favorite word
PULCHRITUDE (Noun)
1. Physical beauty 2. Attractive moral excellence
Etymology: Middle English pulcritude, from Latin pulchritudo, from pulcher, beautiful
Ok, admittedly I had to look this up, but http://dictionary.reference.com had the following example:
Where Linda has her infectious charm, Polly has only her empty pulchritude. -- Hannah Betts, "Sixty years on, and it's still a gel thing", Times (London), February 3, 2001
Some people think it's actually a kind of ugly word, not at all in keeping with its meaning. Who's to account for taste?
ReplyDeleteCould you use it in a sentence, please?
Ok, admittedly I had to look this up, but http://dictionary.reference.com had the following example:
ReplyDeleteWhere Linda has her infectious charm, Polly has only her empty pulchritude.
-- Hannah Betts, "Sixty years on, and it's still a gel thing", Times (London), February 3, 2001
Do you have anything better to do with your time?
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