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Re: impugn (v.) "attack by argument," late 14c.

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Subject: Re: impugn (v.) "attack by argument," late 14c.
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by: henh...@gmail.com - Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:36 UTC

i think i learned the word Detritus from the movie HEAT, dir. by Michael Mann.
(this scene is only in the DVD version, not in the theatre version)

i think i learned the word Duumvirate from the novel Ulysses by J. Joyce.

de·tri·tus [dəˈtrīdəs] NOUN
== waste or debris of any kind:
"streets filled with rubble and detritus"

du·um·vi·rate [ˌd(y)o͞oˈəmvərət] NOUN
== a coalition of two people having joint authority or influence:
"real power will devolve into the hands of a duumvirate"

On Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 2:32:38 PM UTC-7, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
> here's a puzzle... What movie did i just watch that made me look up the word [impugn] ?
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> let me know if ....
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> -------- you learned a word from a movie (or novel)
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> -------- you looked up a word after (while) watching a movie (or novel) or Poem, play....
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> late Middle English (also in the sense ‘assault, attack physically’): from Latin impugnare ‘assail’, from in- ‘towards’ + pugnare ‘fight’.
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> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/impugn
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> impugn (v.) "attack by argument," late 14c., from Old French impugner (14c.), from Latin impugnare "to fight against, assault, attack," from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (from PIE root *en "in") + pugnare "to fight" (see pugnacious).
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> Related: Impugned; impugning.
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> Impugnable has meant "liable to be assailed" (1823) and "that cannot be assailed" (1560s).
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> --------------- a Janus word !

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