FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Number 13.2
Number 13.2
THE
PERNICIOUS HYPOCRISY
OF FRANK RICH
Addendum 2
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PERNICIOUS HYPOCRISY
OF FRANK RICH
Addendum 2
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"Agenbite of Inwit"
Defined in
Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable
By
John Ayto, Ian Crofton
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Defined in
Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable
By
John Ayto, Ian Crofton
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..........Agenbite of Inwit. The remorse of conscience. The expression was a literary revival by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) of the title, Ayenbite of Inwyt, of Dan Michel of Northgate's translation (1340) of al French medieval moral treatise. Ayenbite is a Middle English translation (literally meaning 'again-bite') of Medieval Latin remorsum, the source of English 'remorse', and Inwyt a similar translation of Latin conscientia, the source of modern 'consciece'.
..................................................His hands plunged and rummaged in his
..................................................trunk while he called for a clean handker-
..................................................chief. Agenbite of inwit.
..........................................................................................James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
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..................................................His hands plunged and rummaged in his
..................................................trunk while he called for a clean handker-
..................................................chief. Agenbite of inwit.
..........................................................................................James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
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