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mystery
English
Etymology
From Middle English mysterie, from Anglo-Norman misterie (Old French mistere), from Latin mysterium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (must?rion, “a mystery, a secret, a secret rite”), from ?????? (múst?s, “initiated one”), from ???? (mué?, “I initiate”), from ??? (mú?, “I shut”). Displaced native Old English ?er?ne.
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?s?t?r?, m?s?tr?, IPA(key): /?m?st??i/, /?m?st?i/
- Hyphenation: mys?te?ry, myst?ery
Noun
mystery (countable and uncountable, plural mysteries)
- Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown. [From XIV century.]
- Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
- (obsolete) A secret or mystical meaning. [From XIV century.]
- 1567, Matteo Bandello, Certain Tragical Discourses of Bandello, tr. Geffraie Fenton:
- ...and, not knowing the meaning or misterie of her pollicie, forgat no termes of reproche or rigorous rebuke against his chast doughter.
- 1567, Matteo Bandello, Certain Tragical Discourses of Bandello, tr. Geffraie Fenton:
- A religious truth not understandable by the application of human reason alone (without divine aid). [From XIV century.]
- 1744 (first printed), Jonathan Swift, A Sermon on the Trinity
- If God should please to reveal unto us this great mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them, unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind.
- 1744 (first printed), Jonathan Swift, A Sermon on the Trinity
- (archaic outside Eastern Orthodoxy) A sacrament. [From XV century.]
- 1809, Sir Robert Ker Porter, Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden: During the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808:
- There are seven mysteries, or sacraments, in the Greek church, viz. baptism, the chrism (a rite peculiar to this church), the eucharist, confession, ordination, marriage, and the holy oil.
- 1809, Sir Robert Ker Porter, Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden: During the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808:
- (chiefly in the plural) A secret religious celebration, admission to which was usually through initiation. [From XV century.]
- (Catholicism) A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ. [From XVII century.]
- A craft, art or trade; specifically a guild of craftsmen.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
- The trades, the crafts, the mysteries, would all be losers.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Synonyms
- roun (obsolete)
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Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman misterie.
Noun
mystery
- Alternative form of mysterie (“mystery”)
Etymology 2
From Old French mistere.
Noun
mystery
- Alternative form of mysterie (“duty”)
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perplexity
English
Etymology
perplex +? -ity, from Middle French perplexité or post-classical Latin perplexitas ‘entanglement’, from perplexus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??pl?ks?ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /p???pl?ks?di/
Noun
perplexity (countable and uncountable, plural perplexities)
- The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.
- Something that perplexes.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 149:
- The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities, stood providing a strongly contrary appearance.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 149:
- In information theory, a measurement of how well a probability distribution or model predicts a sample.
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