Joyfully Retired

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a fun meme I love to play each week. It keeps me looking for new words wherever I’m reading.

I’m still slowly reading Silas Marner by George Elliot. Here are a few new words I found while reading this great classic:

1. benignity: “Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon-worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the grey-haired peasantry; for the rude mind with difficulty associates the ideas of power and benignity,

Benignity (pronounced be-nig-ni-ty) means kindness or tolerance toward others.

2. colloquies: “. . . in the period of his conversion, he had dreamed that he saw the words “calling and election sure” standing by themselves on a white page in the open Bible. Such colloquies have occupied many a pair of pale-faced weavers, whose unnurtured souls have been like young winged things, fluttering forsaken in the twilight.

Colloquies (pronounced col-lo-quy) means a conversation. It also means a gathering for discussion of theological questions. I suspect the second definition fits this sentence.

Wondrous Words Wednesday is sponsored by Kathy at Bermuda Onion.