Unknown Word Meanings
Some words (particularly in the Hebrew Bible) occur only once, and nowhere else in any ancient literature (that is, hapax legomena). As a result, their meanings can sometimes be obscure and can only be partly determined through context.
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Famous quotes containing the words unknown, word and/or meanings:
“Pray you bid
These unknown friends to’s welcome, for it is
A way to make us better friends, more known.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“The first green night of their dreaming, asleep beneath the Tree,/God said, “Let meanings move,” and there was poetry.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)