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  • 101Plain Song —    The name given to the ancient music with which the Church service was rendered. Thus Blunt in the Annotated Prayer book, speaking of Church music says, In the remodeling of our English services, the great aim was not to discard, but to utilize …

    American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  • 102absurdity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Quality of being absurd Nouns 1. (nonsensical quality) absurdity, absurdness, nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; inanity (See folly); ludicrousness, ridiculousness, comicality; koan, oxymoron, doublethink …

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  • 103unmeaningness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of meaning or sense Nouns 1. unmeaningness, meaninglessness, senselessness, etc.; absurdity, inanity; ambiguity (see unintelligibility); oxymoron. 2. nonsense, verbiage, mere words, empty sound, dead… …

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  • 104Unintelligibility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Unintelligibility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 unintelligibility unintelligibility Sgm: N 1 incomprehensibility incomprehensibility imperspicuity Sgm: N 1 inconceivableness inconceivableness vagueness &c. >Adj. Sgm …

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  • 105Unimportance — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Unimportance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 unimportance unimportance insignificance nothingness immateriality GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 triviality triviality levity frivolity Sgm: N 2 paltriness paltriness …

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  • 106Ridiculousness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Ridiculousness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 ridiculousness ridiculousness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 comicality comicality oddity &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 extravagance extravagance drollery GRP: N 2 Sgm: N …

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  • 107saying — (n.) utterance, recitation, act of the verb say, c.1300, verbal noun from SAY (Cf. say) (v.); meaning something that has been said (usually by someone thought important) is from c.1300; sense of a proverb is first attested mid 15c. Ça va sans… …

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  • 108Kaufman, Bob — (1925–1986)    Kaufman was a multiethnic poet, an African American poet, a Beat poet, a surrealist poet, a jazz poet, a poète maudit, a New Orleans poet, a San Francisco poet, a street poet, a people’s poet, and a poet’s poet. One of the founding …

    Encyclopedia of Beat Literature

  • 109nonsensical — a. Absurd, foolish, silly, senseless, insensate, stupid, ill judged, unreasonable, irrational, preposterous, unmeaning, frivolous, trifling …

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  • 110senseless — a. 1. Inert, not sentient, without perception. 2. Insensible, unfeeling, apathetic. 3. Unreasonable, foolish, nonsensical, ill judged, unwise, absurd, unmeaning, silly. 4. Stupid, foolish, doltish, silly, simple, witless, weak minded. 5.… …

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