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laodicean

PRONUNCIATION:

(lay-ah-duh-SEE-uhn)

MEANING:

adjective: Lukewarm or indifferent, especially regarding religion.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Laodicea, a city in Asia Minor, whose Christians were rebuked for their indifference to religion in Revelation 3:16 in the New Testament. Earliest documented use: 1633.

USAGE:

"How can we expect such vital realism from our pathologically Laodicean political class?"
Kevin Myers; An Irishman's Diary; Irish Times (Dublin); Jul 19, 2005.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -Charles Evans Hughes, jurist (1862-1948)

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