I’m the king!!
Cigarettes and alcohol anyone?.. Lol.. Today’s a big day for me! woohoo!!! Going to bbdc (bukit batok driving centre) on saturday to enrol for theory lessons.. WOOT!!! Can’t wait!! Hope today’s a good day to start with though it rained just now.. Oops~ I gtg.. Lesson starting now and i’m still not in class.. Will blog soon~ Bye-bi!!!!
amity \AM-uh-tee\, noun:
Friendship; friendly relations, especially between nations.
For at least the first two years of the war, as a Confederate soldier and writer, John Esten Cooke, phrased it, there were “pitched battles once or twice a year,” in which the two sides spent all day killing each other, “and then relapsed into gentlemanly repose and amity.”
– Stephen W. Sears, “Valor Couldn’t Save Them”, New York Times, July 5, 1987
The precise nature of their relationship cannot now be uncovered, and might well have resisted analysis at the time; it remained a matter of mutual services and obligations, the filaments of which over the years created a network of amity and trust.
– Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More
He regards Cordell Hull as the bright particular star of the Roosevelt Administration and heartily approves the Secretary of State’s efforts to promote international amity and reciprocal trade.
– Cleveland Rodgers, “Robert Moses”, The Atlantic, February 1939
Amity comes from Old French-Medieval French amistié, amisté, ultimately from Latin amicus, “friendly, a friend,” from amare, “to love.”
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benefaction \BEN-uh-fak-shuhn; ben-uh-FAK-shuhn\, noun:
1. The act of conferring a benefit.
2. A benefit conferred; especially, a charitable donation.
Rockefeller’s taxable income was then $33,000,000 and that his total fortune was probably more than $800,000,000. At that time he had distributed about $500,000,000 in public benefactions.
– “Financier’s Fortune in Oil Amassed in Industrial Era of ‘Rugged Individualism’”, New York Times, May 24, 1937
It may be, as some social psychologists argue, that the competitive urge to gain more is in time replaced by an equally competitive urge to win fame and favor through public benefactions.
– Robin W. Winks, Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation
Benefaction is from Late Latin benefactio, from Latin benefacere, “to do well, to do good to,” from bene, “well” + facere, “to do.”
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hermitage \HUHR-muh-tij\, noun:
1. The habitation of a hermit or group of hermits.
2. A monastery or abbey.
3. A secluded residence; a retreat; a hideaway.
4. (Capitalized) A palace in St. Petersburg, now an art museum.
She had left her father’s surviving subjects to manage as best they could and climbed even higher in search of the lonely sanctity she had always craved. Now Rose requested her to keep an eye open for the twins who would pass within a few miles of her abandoned hermitage.
– Alice Thomas Ellis, The Sin Eater
When it grows cold, we return to the hermitage where I am ending my days.
– Christophe Bataille, Hourmaster (translated by Richard Howard)
Your oath I will not trust, but go with speed
To some forlorn and naked hermitage,
Remote from all the pleasures of the world.
– Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage.
– Richard Lovelace, “To Althea from Prison”
Hermitage is from Old French hermitage, from heremite, “hermit,” ultimately from Greek eremites, “dwelling in the desert,” from eremia, “desert,” from eremos, “solitary; desolate.”
