Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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OFFENSIVE, adj. Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance of an army against its enemy.Ambrose Bierce
PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.
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INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas . . . that we are born with . . . . The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof . . .
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SELF-EVIDENT, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
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PREROGATIVE, n. A sovereign's right to do wrong.
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LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture.
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