Thursday, May 12, 2016

Word of the day: inchoate

OThe word of the day is inchoate:
  1. not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
  2. just begun; incipient.
  3. not organized; lacking order
1534, from L. inchoatus, pp. of inchoare, alteration of incohare "to begin," originally "to hitch up," from in- "on" + cohum "strap fastened to the oxen's yoke."

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/inchoate)


"I was an ambivalent atheist at that point, beset with an inchoate loneliness and endless anxieties, contemptuous of Christianity but addicted to its aspirations and art."

 - Christian Wiman, "I Will Love You in the Summertime", Spring 2016 The American Scholar (https://theamericanscholar.org/i-will-love-you-in-the-summertime/#.VzRq3dm9LCQ)

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