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Nefandous: One Media Outlet--Daily Prophet--gets today's news Right
One of my word-a-day sites had the following word (new to me) and the above image:
nefandous:
adjective: So wicked as to defy description: abominable, appalling...
From Latin nefandus (wicked), from ne- (not) + fandus (to be spoken), gerundive (verbal adjective) of fari (to speak)...
Earliest documented use: 1649...
A synonym of today’s word is nefarious, but it’s from Latin fas (right, divine law) instead of fari (to speak)...
https://www.wordsmith.org/words/today.html
adjective: So wicked as to defy description: abominable, appalling...
From Latin nefandus (wicked), from ne- (not) + fandus (to be spoken), gerundive (verbal adjective) of fari (to speak)...
Earliest documented use: 1649...
A synonym of today’s word is nefarious, but it’s from Latin fas (right, divine law) instead of fari (to speak)...
https://www.wordsmith.org/words/today.html
Media, and the words they use, matter. The radical right certainly knows this—which is why they strive to control all communication.
“Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind”
Charles Capps (Texas TV Evangelist)
The Abrahamic religions have long promoted faith though fear (Proverbs 9:10). This will soon, again, be demonstrated.