Shakespearean Imagination

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It's Wednesday again, which means another installment of Shakespearean Imagination!


I've been fighting with my internet connection all day, as we've had severe thunderstorms and downpours alternating with bright, gorgeous sunshine. Luckily, I'm able to post now while it's still Wednesday local time, LOL! Looking at the forecast over the next couple of days, it looks like the sun is going to win out, and I intend to bask in its:

radiance : ra•di•ance / ˈrādēəns/ (noun) :
noun
-light or heat as emitted or reflected by something.
-great joy or love, apparent in someone’s expression or bearing.


Synonyms brilliance – luster – lustre


First seen in Shakespeare's All’s Well That Ends Well (written 1602 - 1603). The full text of the play may be found here.

Thursday word: veridical

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veridical (vuh-RID-i-kuhl) - adj., truthful, veracious; not illusory, genuine.


This can be used in a general sense of being true, but also in specialized psychological senses, both that perception is generally assumed to be veridical unless otherwise shown to be illusory, but also of dreams and revelations, especially ones that deal with future events or apparently unknowable present realities. This last sense is moving more properly over into parapsychology, but the experience thereof is still dealt with under psychology. It also shows up in theological writings, but I have no revelation in that regard so I'm leaving it alone. The word was borrowed around 1650 from Latin vēridicus, from vērus, true + dicere, to say -- so, truth-speaking.

Few believe that all religious experiences are veridical.

---L.