Every now and again we all come across words we don't understand or words about whose meanings we are not sure. I recently heard a discussion at work about the differencne in menaing between disinformation and misinformation. There certainly is a difference, as there is between the words disused and misused.
Language can be great fun.
Religious vocabulary seems at times to have a life of its own. Came across this sentence in a pious publication.
"Mary is the soil where once the seed of imperishable life was sown, may she make our hearts this summer a fitting place that the mystery of her Divine Son may penetrate us deeply and that his life may spring forth in us as it (sic) shown forth in her"
And then the word 'vestition'. Unfortunately, I could not find it in any of the dictionaries to hand. Even Google had difficulty with the word.
Eventually it appeared and that particular search led me to the Ku Klux Klan.
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A highly appropriate destination in the circumstances.
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