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Apr 1, 2022
This week’s themeClothes (or lack of them) This week’s words defrock divest travesty revet investiture 
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with Anu Garginvestiture
PRONUNCIATION:
(in-VES-ti-choor/chuhr)
MEANING:
noun: A formal ceremony in which someone is given an official title, rank, honors, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin investire (to cloth, install), from vestis (garment).
Ultimately from the Indo-European root wes- (to clothe), which also gave
us wear, vest, invest, divest,
travesty, and
revet. Earliest documented use:
1387.
USAGE:
“We have, however, maintained control over merchandising relating to
the investiture itself and have come up with some exciting ideas.
Firstly, everyone attending will be able to purchase a photo of
themselves with Australia’s first president.” Ross Fitzgerald & Ian McFadyen; The Dizzying Heights; Hybrid Publishers; 2019. See more usage examples of investiture in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried
from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy:
animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a
debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. -Milan Kundera,
novelist, playwright, and poet (b. 1 Apr 1929)
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