This week’s theme
“New” words

This week’s words
numero uno
noodgy
pneumatology
nuciform
nutant

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(noo/nyoo-muh-TOL-uh-jee)

MEANING:

noun: The study of spiritual phenomena.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek pneuma (breath, wind, spirit). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pneu- (to breathe), which is also the source of pneumatic, French pneu (tire), pneumonia, apnea, sneer, sneeze, snort, and snore. Earliest documented use: 1648.

USAGE:

“He was rejoicing that African people were, as a result of their faith in God, displacing their belief in magic with a reasoned understanding of science, technology, economics, and rationality. Rolly spoke in praise of the diversity of the Bible college curriculum that included anthropology, psychology, and psychiatry with theology, Christology, and pneumatology.”
Jim Harries; To Africa in Love; 2019.

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