Fw: Wordsmith (5/13/2025): A.Word.A.Day -- Winsome
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May 13, 2025
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winsome
PRONUNCIATION:
(WIN-suhm)
MEANING:
adjective: Pleasing or charming, especially in a childlike or innocent manner.
USAGE:
From Old English wynsum, from wynn (joy) + -sum (-some). Earliest documented use: 450.
ETYMOLOGY:
¡°The guest lists included women who were ¡®as winsome as possible¡¯ to
make the town seem attractive to the (male) engineer in charge of
choosing [the site of a ].
The plan worked.¡±
Going Nuclear; The Economist (London, UK); Jul 1, 2023.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering: in a
despotic state there is little complaint but much suffering. -Lazare
Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, statesman and engineer (13 May 1753-1823)
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