DefinitionsIn Camera; In Kind; In the Main; In Toto; Incantatory; IncipitIncreate; Inculcate; Indurate; Ineffable; Infecund/InfecundousInfinitude; Insightful/ Meaningful; InsinuendoInstinctively; Instinctivity; Integrity; Interlingual RenditionInterregnum; Interrogate; Intuition; Intuitive; InveracityInvidia; Inwit; Ipse-dixit; Ipsedixitism; Ipso Facto/ Ipso FactoidIrony; Irrefragable; Irrevocable; -ism/ Doctrine; -ity
• in camera (adv.): in secret; privately. (American Heritage Dictionary). • in camera (adv & adj.): in a private or secret session; not in public. (Collins Dictionary). • in camera (adv.): kept private or confined to those intimately concerned. (WordNet 3.0). • in camera (adv.): in private; secretly; [related words]: clandestinely, collusively, conspiratorially, covertly;
furtively, secretively, sneakily, stealthily, surreptitiously, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, underhandedly. [Latin, lit. ‘in
a chamber’]. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). In kind: in a similar form, likewise. (Oxford Dictionary).
• in the main (adv.): 1. for the most part; [e.g.]: “Nonetheless it will endure, in the main, as it is essentially sound”; (synonyms): mainly, chiefly, primarily, principally; [e.g.]: “She is mainly interested in butterflies”; 2. without distinction of one from others; [e.g.]: “Though essentially different they appeared similar, in the main, to casual inspection”; (synonyms): in general, generally; [e.g.]: “He is, in general, interested in her flutter-byes”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0; Edited Version). • in the main (idiom): generally; for the most part; [e.g.]: “My employees work hard, in the main, as there’s just a few who give me headaches every once in a while”; “It’s a good book, in the main, even though a few scenes seem unfinished”. ~ (Farlex Dictionary of Idioms). • in the main (idiom): basically; generally; [e.g.]: “[Mary]: ‘Everything looks all right—in the main, that is’; [Sally]: ‘What details are needing attention?’ [Mary]: ‘Just a few things, here and there, like on page twenty-seven’”; “[John]: ‘Are you all ready?’ [Sue]: ‘I think we’re ready—in the main, anyway’; [John]: ‘Then shall we go’?” ~ (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs; Edited Version). • in the main (idiom): for the most part, chiefly; [e.g.]: “It was, in the main, an excellent conference”. [first half of the 1600s]. ~ (The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms). • in the main (idiom): mostly; on the whole; [e.g.]: “The students did well, in the main, for all
it being a rigorous exam”. ~ (Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary; Edited version). in toto (adv.): a phrase meaning ‘in
all’ and used to mean completely or wholly; (synonyms): completely, totally, entirely, as a whole, wholly,
uncut, in its entirety, unabridged; [e.g.]: “The corpse was interred in toto in a crypt”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). incantatory (adj.): relating to or having the characteristics of an incantation.
~ (Collins English Dictionary). incipit (n.): ‘here begins’; the beginning or opening words of the text of a medieval manuscript or early printed
book; [fr. Latin, 3rd per. sing. pres. tense of incipere, ‘to begin’]. (American Heritage Dictionary)
increate (v.; increates, increating, *increated*): to create within.
[etymology: from in- + create]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Word-Sense Online Dictionary).
increate (tr.v.): 1. to create within; [imp. & pp: increated; ppr & vb. n.: increating].
~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). [https://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/Increate]. inculcate (adj.): to instil by forceful or insistent repetition; (synonyms): instil, impress, implant, infuse, drill, drum in, indoctrinate; (informal): hammer in; [e.g.]: “Care was taken to inculcate the values of nationhood and family”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). inculcate (v.): 1. to fix (an idea, for example) in someone’s mind by reemphasis and repetition; (synonyms):
drill, drive, implant, impress, instil, pound; 2. to instruct in a body of doctrine or belief; (synonyms): drill, indoctrinate.
~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). indurate (v.; indurated, indurating, indurates; tr.v.): 1. to make hard; harden; [e.g.]: “soil that had been indurated by extremes of climate”; 2. to inure⁽*⁾, as to hardship or ridicule; 3. to make callous or obdurate; [e.g.]: “It is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart”. (Helen Maria Williams); (intr.v.): 1. to grow hard; harden; 2. to become firmly fixed or established; (adj.): hardened; obstinate; unfeeling; (n.): induration; (adj.): indurative. [Latin indūrāre, indūrāt-; from in- , intensive prefix + dūrus, ‘hard’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). ⁽*⁾inure or enure (v.): (often followed by ‘to’) to cause to
accept or become hardened to; (i.e., to habituate to something undesirable, esp. by prolonged subjection); habituate; (n.): inuredness, enuredness;
inurement, enurement. [C15 enuren, ‘to accustom’, from ure, ‘use’,
from Old French euvre, ‘custom’, ‘work’, from Latin opera, ‘works’, plural of
opus]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • ineffable (adj.): 1. incapable of being expressed; indescribable or unutterable; [e.g.]: “It is an ineffable joy”; 2. not to be uttered; taboo; [e.g.]: “The ineffable name of God”; (n.): ineffability, ineffableness; (adv.): ineffably. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin ineffābilis; from in-¹, ‘not’ + effābilis, ‘utterable’; from effārī, ‘to utter’, from ex- + fārī, ‘to speak’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • ineffable (adj.): 1. too great or intense to be expressed in words; unutterable; 2. too sacred to be uttered; 3. indescribable; indefinable; (n.): ineffability, ineffableness; (adv.): ineffably. [C15: from Latin ineffābilis, ‘unutterable’, from in-¹ + effābilis, from effārī, ‘to utter’, from fārī, ‘to speak’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • ineffable (adj.): 1. incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible; [e.g.]: “An ineffable joy”; 2. not to be spoken because of its sacredness; unutterable; [e.g.]: “The ineffable name of the deity”; (n.): ineffability, ineffableness; (adv.): ineffably. [1400-50; late Middle English from Middle French from Latin ineffābilis; from in-³ + effabilis, from effā(rī), ‘to utter’, ‘say’ (ef- + fari-, ‘to speak’) + -bilis, ‘-ble’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • ineffable (adj.): 1. defying expression or description; [e.g.]: “She was experiencing an ineffable ecstasy”; (synonyms): indefinable, indescribable, unutterable, unspeakable, untellable; [e.g.]: “Her indefinable yearnings”; “Such indescribable beauty”; “His inexpressible anguish”; “Their unutterable contempt”; “It was a moment of unspeakable happiness”; “It is a thing of untellable splendour”; inexpressible, unexpressible (defying expression); 2. too sacred to be uttered; [e.g.]: “The ineffable name of the Deity”; (synonyms): unnameable, unutterable, unspeakable; sacred (concerned with religion or religious purposes); [e.g.]: “The sacred texts were safely stored away”; “Those sacred rites are essential”; “The sacred music carried a clear message”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0; Edited Version). • ineffable (adj.): indescribable, unspeakable, indefinable, beyond words, unutterable, inexpressible, incommunicable; [e.g.]: “The ineffable sadness of many of the portraits”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). • ineffable (adj.): that cannot be described; (synonyms): incommunicable, indefinable, indescribable, inexpressible, undescribable, unspeakable, unutterable; (idioms): beyond description, defying description. ~ (The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). • ineffable (adj. & n.): I. (adj.): 1. incapable of being expressed in words; unspeakable; unutterable; inexpressible: as, ‘the ineffable joys of heaven’ or as ‘an ineffable disgust’; [e.g.]: “A book which comes from God... is given to us, on purpose to open to us some discoveries concerning the divíne nature, its essence, and inefable perfections”. (Bishop Atterbury, “Sermons”, II. x); “In their branching veins | The eloquent blood told an inefable tale”. (Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude”, 1816 ); 2. that must not be spoken: as, ‘the ineffable name’; see Jehovah; II. (n.): 1. (pl.; humorous): trousers; [e.g.]: “Shoes off, ineffables tucked up”. (William Johnson Cory, 1823-1892, “Letters and Journals”, 1897, p. 196); 2. one who is not to be named; one who is too high in his profession or in the fashionable world to be named with others; [e.g.]: “Two white-hatted and pig-topped ineffables had taken refuge under the colonnade from a transient shower of rain. It was a by-race, and there was little doing, so the inefables put up their betting-books and relaxed into general conversation”. (Illustrated London News, June 15, 1861, p. 549). [= French ineffable = Spanish inefable = Portuguese ineffavel = Italian ineffabile, from Latin ineffabilis, ‘unutterable’, from in-, privative + effabilis, ‘that can be uttered’; see effable]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • ineffably (adv.): in an ineffable manner; so as not to be expressed in words; unspeakably; [e.g.]: “But in this indefinite description there is something inefably great and noble”. (Guardian, No. 89). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • ineffability (n.): the condition or quality of being ineffable; unspeakableness. [= French ineffabilité = Spanish inefabilidad = Portuguese ineffabilidade = Italian ineffabilità; as ineffable + -ity; see -bility]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • ineffableness (n.): the quality of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness. ~
(Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Infecund/Infecundous: infecund (adj.): a less common word for infertile (=‘not fertile’, ‘not capable of producing offspring’; ‘sterile’; \
‘barren’); (n.): infecundity. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). infecundous (adj.): unfruitful; infecund; [e.g.]: “That the Ariſtotelian Phyſiology cannot
boaſt itſelf the proper Author of any one Invention, is prægnant evidence of its infecundous deficiency” (Joseph Glanvill
(1636-1680), “Scepsis Scientifica” or “Vanity of Dogmatising”, Ch. xxɪ; 1665). [from
Latin infēcunda, ‘unfruitful’; from in-, priv. +
fēcundas, ‘fruitful’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). infinite extent, amount, duration, etc.; a boundless expanse; an unlimited time. (Oxford Dictionary). * • infinitude (n.): infinite extent, amount, duration, etc.; a boundless expanse; an unlimited time. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). • absolute (n.; philosophy): 1. a value or principle which is regarded as universally valid or which may be
viewed without relation to other things; [e.g.]: “good and evil are presented as absolutes”; 1.1. (the absolute): that which exists without being
dependent on anything else; 1.2. (the Absolute): ultimate reality; God. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary • absoluteness (n.): that which exists, or is able to be thought of, without relation to other things; an absolute thing. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). (left-clicking the yellow rectangle with the capital ‘U’ opens a new web page). Insightful (a.): full of insight: insight (n.): (synonyms): intuition, perception, awareness,
discernment, understanding, penetration, acumen, perspicacity, perspicaciousness, discrimination, judgement, shrewdness, sharpness, acuteness,
flair, vision. 2. awareness, understanding, realization, revelation ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• meaningful: full of meaning or expression; significant’. (Oxford
Dictionary). • insinuendo (n.; pl. insinuendos; informal, humorous): another term for insinuation (viz.: an unpleasant hint or suggestion of something bad); [e.g.]: “Despite the insinuendo in the book, he accompanied his wife of nineteen years to her reading”; “He draws us in with poignant songs of penetrating insinuendo, closer to our hearts than we care to admit”. [origin: late nineteenth century blend of insinuation and innuendo]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). • insinuendo (n.; pl. insinuendos or insinuendoes): insinuation containing innuendo; [e.g.]: “Truly a man may wish, ‘O that mine enemy would let me write his Preface! Could I not damn with faint praise and stab with sharp insinuendo’—to use the labour-saving and much-needed word thoughtlessly invented by the sable legislator of South Carolina”. (p. 57, “Pen and Ink; Papers on Subjects of More Or Less Importance”, Brander Matthews; 1888); “It’s sort of an insinuendo, as Matt King says, that your mind could stand a good deal of improving and not hurt it any”. (p. 30, “Missed It; The Big Idea”, by Eugene Wood; 1918, Boys’ Life, Boy Scouts of America, Inc.); “‘I don’t have it’, says Leon. ‘It was done away with because of the negative insinuendo implication’”. (p. 131, “The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: a Psychological Study”, Milton Rokeach; 1964, Knopf). [etymology: blend of insinuation + innuendo]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). • insinuendo (n.; pl. insinuendos): insinuation sense 2a (viz.: something which is insinuated; viz.: something hinted slyly, or suggested by indirect allusion, innuendo, etc.; instilled or infused subtly or artfully, as into the mind). [etymology: blend of insinuation, a sly, subtle, and usually derogatory utterance (also, insinuatory, insinuative) and innuendo, an indirect or subtle reference, made maliciously, or indicating criticism or disapproval]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary; Edited Version). • insinuendo (n.): a combination of the words ‘innuendo’ and ‘insinuation’, most commonly used in a sexual reference, or when a comment or joke can be taken sexually, or as a sexual innuendo; [e.g.]: “‘That’s what she said...’; ‘Stop with the insinuendos!’”; an example of an insinuendo; [e.g.]: “Ooh! Do me next!” (uploaded by Rachel Lea Floyd; June 11, 2007). ~ (Urban Dictionary Online). • insinuant (adj.): insinuating; insinuative. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). __________ • [Mr. Michael Quinion]: This piece comes with a health warning: unwise use of the word ‘insinuendo’ may seriously damage your linguistic credibility. It is one of the few words in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary to which an editorial note has been attached: “A tasteless word”, it says, signed with the initials of the then editor, Dr Robert Burchfield. I would not normally wish to posthumously dispute lexicographical matters with someone so eminent, especially one who edited the third edition of Fowler’s “Modern English Usage”, but that’s surely a harsh verdict on a little word which flows trippingly off the tongue. It is an obvious blend of insinuation and innuendo, a portmanteau construction containing elements of both. Throughout its life (and it is more than a century old, as we shall see), it has been used either humorously, or to indicate that a speaker in a book or play is uneducated. The Oxford English Dictionary knows of it from 1885. Its first example says it was invented by a legislator from South Carolina. This seems to be confirmed by this little squib, which appeared in Appletons’ “Journal of New York” in 1875. It manages the trick of being both heavy-handed and tongue-in-cheek at the same time: • “The South Carolina Legislature has immortalised itself by coining the word “insinuendos”. Seeing the wideness of its application, the ‘Tribune’ begs to be “permitted to express the obligations which society, and especially society’s representatives in official life, legislators, cabinet officers, and such, are under for an uncommonly fresh, beautiful, and expressive phrase. It admirably fits the time. It is a contribution to current politics as well as to philology”. I can reveal that this belief about its origin is wrong. The unnamed legislator from South Carolina may have re-invented the word, but it was around earlier, since it appeared in 1871 in a now totally forgotten one-act comic drama by William R. Emerson entitled “Putkins”. In this, he has an uneducated person say “I scorn the insinuendo!” But Mr Emerson cannot claim to have invented it: • “In one of the Western exchange papers, an Editor calls a brother Editor, ‘a lying scullion’, ‘a pale faced dastard’, ‘a white livered puppy’, ‘in character below the vilest bawd-house bully’. Now this is what the man in the play calls an ‘insinuendo’, and seems to shadow forth—as it were—that the person assailed is not a particularly reputable individual”. (Constantine Republican, Michigan, 16 Nov. 1836). The paragraph is said to be from the New York Times, though it doesn’t appear in that journal’s public archives. What was the play the man was in? It can’t have been William Emerson’s, because it was first published thirty-five years later. It would be nice to trace it. Similarly, I can’t trace the Western paper whose editor had such a fine command of invective. It is rarely seen today, but anyone using it would have to flag their facetious intent to avoid being assumed to be
as ignorant as Mr Emerson’s character. But it is inoffensive enough, in all truth, and neatly encapsulates two
ideas themselves closely related. ~ (Michael Quinion; page created: Jan 19, 2002;
Last updated: Mar 6, 2015 (left-clicking the yellow rectangle with the capital ‘U’ opens a new web page). Instinctivity (n.): the quality of being instinctive. Collins English Dictionary instinctivity (n.): the quality of being instinctive [viz.: of, relating to, or resulting from instinct; i.e., 1. the innate
capacity of an animal to respond to a given stimulus in a relatively fixed way; 2. inborn intuitive power; 3. a natural and apparently innate aptitude].
~ (Collins English Dictionary integrity (n.): 1. moral or ethical strength; (synonyms):
character, fibre, honesty, principle; 2. the quality of being honest; (synonyms):
honesty, honour, honorableness, incorruptibility, upstandingness; 3. the condition of being free from defects or flaws;
(synonyms): durability, firmness, solidity, soundness, stability, strength, wholeness; 4. the state of
being entirely whole; (synonyms): completeness, entirety, oneness, totality, wholeness.
~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). • interlingual rendition (n.): a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written
communication in a first language; (synonyms): translation, version, rendering; (related words): mistranslation (an incorrect translation); crib,
pony, trot (a literal translation, often used illicitly, utilised in studying a foreign language). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • interregnum (n.; pl. interregnums or interregna): 1. the interval of time between the end of a sovereign’s reign and the accession of a successor; 2. a period of temporary suspension of the usual functions of government or control; 3. a gap in continuity; (adj.): interregnal. [Latin, from inter- + rēgnum, ‘reign’, from rēx, rēg- ‘king’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • interregnum (n.; pl. interregnums or interregna): 1. an interval between two reigns, governments, incumbencies, etc.; 2. any period in which a state lacks a ruler, government, etc.; 3. a period of absence of some control, authority, etc.; 4. a gap in a continuity; (adj.): interregnal. [C16: from Latin inter- + regnum, ‘reign’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • interregnum (n.; pl. interregnums or interregna): 1. an interval of time between the close of a sovereign’s reign and the accession of the normal or legitimate successor; 2. any period during which a state is without a permanent ruler; 3. any pause or interruption in continuity; (adj.): interregnal. [1570-80; from Latin inter- + regnum, ‘reign’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • interregnum (n.): the time between two reigns, governments, etc.; (synonyms): interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag (the time between one event, process, or period and another; [e.g.]: “meanwhile the socialists are running the government”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • interregnum (n.): a time during which the throne is vacant. ~ (Collins Dictionary of Law). • interregnum (polit. law): in an established government, the period which elapses between the death of a sovereign and the election of another is called interregnum. It is also understood for the vacancy created in the executive power, and for any vacancy which occurs when there is no government. ~ (A Law Dictionary by John Bouvier; 1856). • interregnum (n.): 1. an interval between two reigns, governments, incumbencies, etc.; 2. any period in which a state lacks a ruler, government, etc. ~ (Collins Discovery Encyclopaedia). • interregnum (n.): a period of discontinuity or “gap” in a government, organisation, or social order. Archetypally, it was the period of time between the reign of one monarch and the next (coming from Latin inter-, ‘between’, and rēgnum, ‘reign’, from rex, rēgis, ‘king’), and the concepts of interregnum and regency therefore overlap. Historically, the longer and heavier interregna were typically accompanied by widespread unrest, civil and succession wars between warlords, and power vacuums filled by foreign invasions or the emergence of a new power. A failed state is usually in interregnum. The term also refers to the periods between the election of a new parliament and the establishment of a new government from that parliament in parliamentary democracies, usually ones that employ some form of proportional representation that allows small parties to elect significant numbers, requiring time for negotiations to form a government. In the United Kingdom, Canada and other “first past the post” electoral systems, this period is usually very brief, except in the rare occurrence of a hung parliament as occurred both in Australia in 2010 and the United Kingdom in 2017. In parliamentary interregnums, the previous government usually stands as a caretaker government until the new government is established. Similarly, in some Christian denominations, “interregnum” (interim) describes the time between vacancy and appointment of priest or pastors to various roles. Additionally, the term has been applied to the period of time between the election of a new President of the United States and his or her inauguration, during which the outgoing president remains in power, but as a lame duck. (...elided...). In some monarchies, such as the United Kingdom, an interregnum is usually avoided due to a rule described as “The King is dead. Long live the King”, i.e. the heir to the throne becomes a new monarch immediately on his predecessor’s death or abdication. This famous phrase signifies the continuity of sovereignty, attached to a personal form of power named ‘auctoritas’. This is not so in other monarchies where the new monarch’s reign begins only with coronation or some other formal or traditional event. In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth for instance, kings were elected, which often led to relatively long interregna. During that time it was the Polish primate who served as an interrex (ruler between kings). In Belgium the heir only becomes king upon swearing before the parliament. In fiction: • In the historical novel “Poland” by James A. Michener, 1983, which spent thirty-eight weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List, interregnum is mentioned numerous times in the ever-shifting power struggles which plagued that country, even up to the nineteen-eighties. • In John Tolkien’s “Legendarium” set in Middle-earth, the disappearance of the King Eärnur of Gondor is followed by a nine-hundred-and-sixty-eight-year interregnum (the Steward years), which ends with the return of Aragorn in “The Lord of the Rings”. • The events of Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” take place during the galactic interregnum in his “Foundation Universe”, taking place in the twenty-fifth millennium. “Foundation” begins at the end of the ‘Galactic Empire’ and notes in the novels from the “Encyclopaedia Galactica” imply that a ‘Second Galactic Empire’ follows the thousand-year interregnum. • The “Old Kingdom Trilogy” takes place after two hundred years of interregnum, where the reigning Queen and her two daughters were murdered by Kerrigor, a hundred-and-eighty years of regency first and twenty years of anarchy following the death of the last Regent. • The “Vlad Taltos” series is set in a fantastical world of magic, at a time directly following a two-hundred-and-fifty-year interregnum wherein traditional sorcery was impossible due to the orb being destroyed. ~ (2012 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia). 
interrogate (tr.v.; interrogated, interrogating, interrogates): to examine by questioning formally or officially;
(synonyms): ask, question, inquire, query, examine, quiz, interrogate; these verbs mean to seek to gain or elicit information from another; ask is the most
neutral term; [e.g.]: “We asked the police officer for directions”; “The coach asked me what was wrong”; question implies careful
or methodical asking; [e.g.]: “The prosecutor questioned the witness on several key points”; inquire often suggests a polite or formal
request; [e.g.]: “We inquired whether the hotel had laundry service”; “The chairman inquired how best to secure the information”;
query usually suggests settling a doubt; [e.g.]: “The proof-reader queried the author on the spelling of a name”; examine refers
particularly to close and detailed questioning to ascertain a person's knowledge or qualifications; [e.g.]: “The committee examined each candidate
separately”; quiz denotes the informal examination of students; [e.g.]: “The teacher quizzed the pupils on the multiplication table”;
interrogate applies especially to official and often aggressive questioning; [e.g.]: “The detectives interrogated the suspects for several
hours”; (n.): interrogation, interrogator; (adj.): interrogational. [Middle English enterrogate, from
Latin interrogāre, interrogāt-; from inter, ‘in
the presence of’ (see inter-) + rogāre, ‘to ask’]. ~ (American Heritage
Dictionary). intuition: spiritual insight or perception; instantaneous spiritual communication without the
intervention of reasoning. Oxford Dictionary intuitive (adj.): (synonyms): intuitional, instinctive, instinctual, innate, inborn, inherent,
untaught, unlearned, involuntary, spontaneous, automatic; intuition (n.): (synonyms): 1. instinct, sixth sense, divination • inveracity (n.; pl. inveracities): a lie; (mass n.): untruthfulness. (Oxford Dictionary) • inveracity (n.; pl. inveracities): 1. lack of veracity; untruthfulness; 2. an untruth; a falsehood. (American Heritage Dictionary). • inveracity (n.): Lack of veracity or truthfulness; an untruth. (Century Dictionary). • inveracity (n.; pl. -ties): 1. lying; untruthfulness; 2. an untruth; lie. (Collins Dictionary). • inveracity (n.): 1. lack of veracity; untruthfulness; 2. (pl. inveracities): a falsehood; lie. (Webster’s College Dictionary). • inveracity (n.; infl.: inveracities): 1. untruthfulness; dishonesty; mendacity; 2: an untruth; lie; falsehood (antonym):
veracity; (related word): falsehood. (Wordsmyth Dictionary). invidia: spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly
sins). (WordNet® 2.0). inwit (n.): the sense of right and wrong which governs a person’s thoughts
and actions; understanding or reason. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). inwit (n.): usually meaning “an inner sense of right or wrong” its more general meaning is “reason, intellect, understanding, or
wisdom”. ~ (Farlex Trivia Dictionary). ipse dixit (n.): an arbitrary and unsupported assertion. [C16, literally: “he himself said it”].
~ (Collins English Dictionary). •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ipsedixitism (n.): an unsupported dogmatic assertion. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).
ipso facto (adv.): by the fact itself; by that very fact; [e.g.]: “An alien, ipso facto, has no right to a US passport”. [New Latin ipsō factō; from Latin ipsō, ablative of ipse, ‘itself’ + Latin factō, ablative of factum, ‘fact’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).
•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ipso factoid (adv.): by the factoid itself; by that very factoid⁽⁰¹⁾; [e.g.]: “Despite her evidential innocence she was, ipso factoid⁽⁰²⁾, charged with a felony”. [Ultra-Modern Latin ipsō factōid; from Latin ipsō, ablative of ipse, ‘itself’ + factō, ablative of factum, ‘fact’ + -oid, from Greek suffix -oeidēs, ‘resembling’, ‘form of’, derivative of eîdos, ‘form’]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). __________ ⁽⁰¹⁾factoid (n.): an item of unreliable information which is reported and repeated so often it becomes accepted as fact; [e.g.]: “He addresses the facts and factoids which have buttressed the film’s legend”; “And on and on he goes like this for two pages of second hand factoids and observations which never rise above the pseudo-intellectual”; “How factoids and information overload are used to blur the line between crises and light news, so every event becomes a panic situation”; “Several days, here and at other companies, I hear this factoid repeated like a campaign talking point”; “I’m informed from a usually reliable source how a factoid is an empirical claim which is often repeated but is in fact false”; “I don’t know whether this item is a factoid or a fact”; “When does a piece of data go from being a factoid to being a fact?” [emphases added]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).⁽⁰²⁾ The neoteric adverb, ipso factoid, was coined as play on the Latin tag “ipso facto”⁽⁰³⁾ (lit. ‘by the fact itself’)—a term of art, used in philosophy, law, and science, which means a certain outcome is a direct consequence, a resultant effect, of the subject in question, instead of being brought about by some other effector—hence “ipso factoid” (i.e., ‘by the factoid itself’) which means a certain outcome is a direct consequence, a resultant effect, of the factoid in question (e.g., of a fiction having assumed the status of a ‘fact’ via nescience; of spin being naïvely taken as true; of a belief transmogrifying into a ‘truth’ a.k.a. ‘truthiness’ or, colloquially, of bull baffling brains) instead of being brought about by that which is actual, substantive, and thus factual.⁽⁰³⁾ ipso facto (adv.): by the fact itself; by that very fact; [e.g.]: “An alien, ipso facto, has no right to a US passport”. [New Latin ipsō factō; from Latin ipsō, ablative of ipse, ‘itself’ + Latin factō, ablative of factum, ‘fact’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).
irony [Latin ‘ironia’, Greek ‘eironeia’ simulated ignorance, from ‘eiron’
dissembler]: dissimulation, pretence; especially the pretence of ignorance practised by Socrates as a step towards confuting an adversary.’ (Oxford Dictionary). • irrefragable (adj.): what cannot be refuted or overthrown; incontestable; undeniable; as an irrefragable argument; irrefragable reason or evidence. [from in + refragable, Latin refragor; from re- + the root of frango, ‘to break’]. ~ (Webster’s 1828 Dictionary). • irrefragable (adj.): “what cannot be refuted”, literally “incapable of being broken down”, [1530s, from French irréfragable (sixteenth century) and directly from Late Latin irrefragabilis, from assimilated form of in-, ‘not’, ‘opposite of’ + Latin refragari, ‘to oppose’, ‘contest’, from re-, ‘back’ + frag-, base of frangere, ‘to break’; from PIE root *bhreg-, ‘to break’;] (related): irrefragably and irrefragability. ~ (Online Etymology Dictionary). • irrefragable (adj.): impossible to refute or controvert; indisputable; [e.g.]: “it is irrefragable evidence”; (n.): irrefragablity; (adv.): irrefragably. [Late Latin irrefrāgābilis; from Latin in-, ‘not’ + Latin refrāgārī, ‘to oppose’, ‘resist’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • irrefragable (adj.): not able to be denied or refuted; indisputable; (n.): irrefragablity, irrefragableness; (adv.): irrefragably. [C16: from Late Latin irrefrāgābilis, from Latin ir- + refrāgārī, ‘to resist’, ‘thwart’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • irrefragable (adj.): not to be disputed or contested; (adv.): irrefragably. [1525-35; from Late Latin irrefragābilis; from Latin ir-² + refragā(rī), ‘to oppose’ + -bilis, ‘-ble’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • irrefragable (adj.): not refragable; incapable of being broken down or refuted; incontrovertible; undeniable; not confutable: as, an irrefragable argument; irrefragable evidence; an irrefragable opponent; [e.g.]: “What a noble and irrefragable testimony was this to the power, to the truth of the Messiah!” (Bishop Hall, “The Ten Lepers”); “Yet did not any of these conceive themselves infallible, or set down their dictates as verities irrefragable, but when they deliver their own Inventions, or reject other mens Opinions, they proceed with Judgment and Ingenuity; establishing their assertion, not only with great solidity, but submitting them also unto the correction of future discovery”. (Sir Thomas Browne, “Vulgar Errors” aka “Pseudodoxia Epidemica”); “He was also well skilled in history, in antiquity, and in philosophy; and for theology, he became so versed in it, that he was an irrefragable disputant against the errors, especially those of Anabaptism, which with anxiety he saw rising in his colony; wherefore he wrote some significant things for the confutation of those errors”. (Cotton Mather, “Magnalia Christi Americana” (i.e., ‘The Glorious Works of Christ in America’), 1702; 11. 1); “Against so obstinate and irrefragable an enemy, what could avail the unsupported allies of genius?” (Oliver Goldsmith, “An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe”, ii); (synonyms): unanswerable, indisputable, unquestionable, indubitable, irrefutable. [= French irréfragabilite = Spanish irrefragable, Portuguese irrefragavel = Italian inrefragabile, irrefragabile, from Late Latin irrefragabilis, inrefragabilis, ‘irrefragable’; see refragable]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • irrefragably (adv.): in an irrefragable manner; so as to be irrefragable; incontrovertibly; [e.g.]: “Herein he was irrefragably true, that there cannot be anything more certain and evident to a man that thinks than that he doth think”. (Sir Matthew Hale, “Origin of Mankind”, p. 24). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • irrefragability (n.): the quality of being irrefragable or incapable of refutation. ~ (Webster’s 1828 Dictionary). • irrefragability (n.): the quality of being irrefragable or incapable of refutation; [e.g.]: “A solemn, high-stalking man, with such a fund of indignation in him, or of latent indignation; of irrefragability, contumacity”. (Thomas Carlyle, “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, IV. 80). [= French irrefragabilité = Italian irrefragabilità; as irrefragable + ity; see -bility]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • irrefragableness (n.): the state or quality of being irrefragable; irrefragability. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • irrefragableness (noun) & irrefragably (adv.): with force or strength which cannot be overthrown; with certainty beyond refutation; [e.g.]: “We say, the point in debate was irrefragably proved”. ~ (Webster’s 1828 Dictionary). • irrefrangible (adj.): not refrangible; not to be broken or violated; [e.g.]: “An irrefrangible law of country etiquette”. (Mrs. Craik, “Agatha’s Husband”, xx). [= Italian irrefrangibile; as in-³ + ‘refrangible’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • irrefrangibly (adv.): so as to be irrefrangible; fixedly; inviolably; [e.g.]: “They knew—old china figures
know more than people suspect—that the dragons were welded to their vases more irrefrangibly than
Prometheus to his rock”. (Hugh Conway, “A Family Affair”, 1866, p. 16). ~
(Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). irrevocable: unable to be annulled or undone; unalterable, irreversible. (Oxford Dictionary). ‘-ism’: the suffix ‘-ism’ simply forms a noun signifying a characteristic quality (that matter, as evidenced when directly
experienced, is not merely passive). ‘-ism’ (derog.): ism: chiefly derog. a form of doctrine, theory, or practice having, or claiming to have, a
distinctive character or relationship. (Oxford Dictionary). doctrine: a body of teaching, esp. that concerning a particular subject or set of beliefs; a
dogma, a tenet; a political or ethical principle. (Oxford Dictionary). -ity: -ity (suffix): 1. used to form a noun from an adjective; esp. to form the noun referring to the state, property,
or quality of conforming to the adjective’s description; 2. used to form other nouns, esp. abstract nouns. [Middle English
-itie, from French -ité, from Old French -ete
, -eteit, from Latin -itātem, from
-itās]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one.
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