Word Meanings - FREYA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The daughter of Njörd, aud goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.

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• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• DISTINCTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
• DISTINCTURE
  Distinctness.
• DISTINCTIVENESS
  State of being distinctive.
• GODDESS
  1. A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex. When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty. Addison. 2. A woman of superior charms
• VENUS
  The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
• DAUGHTERLY
  Becoming a daughter; filial. Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish.
• DISTINCTIVE
  1. Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft. 2. Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating. Sir T. Browne.
• DISTINCTION
  1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
• TEUTONICISM
  A mode of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a Teutonic idiom, phrase, or expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a Germanism.
• CONFOUNDEDLY
  Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.
• DAUGHTERLINESS
  The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.
• VENUST
  Beautiful. E. Waterhouse.
• DAUGHTER
  doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. d, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. daúhtar,, OSlav. d, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt, Gr. , Zendughdhar, Skr. duhit; possibly originally, the milker,
• BEAUTY
  biauté, Pr. beltat, F. beauté, fr. an assumed LL. bellitas, from L. 1. An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color
• CONFOUNDER
  One who confounds.
• TEUTONIC
  1. Of or pertaining to the Teutons, esp. the ancient Teutons; Germanic. 2. Of or pertaining to any of the Teutonic languages, or the peoples who speak these languages. Teutonic languages, a group of languages forming a division of the
• SCANDINAVIAN
  Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. -- n.
• CONFOUND
  pour together; con- + fundere to pour. See Fuse to melt, and cf. 1. To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse. They who strip not ideas from the marks men use for them, but confound them with words, must
• CONFOUNDEDNESS
  The state of being confounded. Their witty descant of my confoundedness. Milton.
• CONTRADISTINCT
  Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin.
• UNDISTINCTLY
  Indistinctly.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• STEPDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
• SEA GODDESS
  A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.
• INDISTINCTLY
  In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended. In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends confusedly an indistinctly. Sir I. Newton.
• INDISTINCT
  1. Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a manner as to be perceptible by itself; as, the indistinct parts of a substance. "Indistinct as water is in water." Shak. 2. Obscure to the mind or senses; not clear; not definite; confused;
• CONTRADISTINCTION
  Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South.