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United States.
delectatio morosa peevish delight In
Catholic theology,
pleasure taken in a
sinful thought or imagination...
- in the
twentieth century,
derived by back-formation from the
adjective peevish,
meaning "ornery or ill-tempered",
which dates from the late 14th-century...
- and wrawnesse, the last
variously translated as "anger" or
better as "
peevishness". For Chaucer, human's sin
consists of
languishing and
holding back,...
- by his
education and
Scottish upbringing, and he
dealt shortly with the
peevish legacy of
Elizabethan Puritanism,
pursuing an
eirenic religious policy...
- Lyall,
Sarah (August 26, 1992). "At
Dinner With: Rob
Morrow – He's No
Peevish Dr. Fleischman, But He's at Home in
Bagel Town". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331...
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remarked that "I don't
remember now
where I read that
Herder once
exploded peevishly at the
constant preoccupation with Spinoza, "If
Goethe would only for...
- to loud arguments,
which in
earlier seasons typically end with
Cartman peevishly saying "**** you guys ... I'm
going home!" and then leaving. In an action...
- one man's
grand love for a
woman who
marries another are
bound to be
peevishly disappointed ...
those who haven't read the book will now
never understand...
- prince, Even such a
woman oweth to her husband; And when she is froward,
peevish, sullen, sour, And not
obedient to his
honest will, What is she but a foul...
