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• Prayer
  ...(as seen in Priscian), classical Latin ''precari'' "to entreat, pray" from Latin ''precari,'' from ''precor, ''from ''prec-, prex'' "request, entreaty, pray The Latin ''orare'' "to speak" later took over the role of ''precari ''to mean "pray.
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• Microfinance
  ...tudies of informal moneylending rates in fourteen countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa concluded that 76% of moneylender rates exceed 10% per month, in
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• Books
  The scroll of papyrus is called "volumen" in Latin, a word which signifies "circular movement," "roll," "spiral," "whirlpool," Book production developed in Rome in the first century BC with Latin literature that had been influenced by the Greek.
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• Democracy
  ...g, Juergen, & Henretta, James A. (2002). ''Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850.'' Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-05 *Caputo, Nicholas. (2005). ''America's Bible of Democracy: Returning to the Constitution.'' SterlingHouse Publis
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• Jurors
  The [[word]] jur originates from the [[Latin]] jus (gen. juris), meaning "[[law]]". Juries are most common in common law # Landsman S. (1999). "The Civil Jury in America". Law and Contemporary Problems 62: 285. Retrieved on 2009-06-04.
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• Social movement
  ...r social movement. The "social movement" was invented in England and North America during the first decades of the nineteenth century and has since then sprea *Susan Eckstei, ed. ''Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements'', Updated Edition, University of California Pres
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• Narrative
  ...be a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events. It derives from the [[Latin]] verb ''narrare'', which means "to recount" and is related to the adjectiv ...tent=a729208757~db=all~jumptype=rss Redemptive Self: Narrative Identity in America Today The Self and Memory, Volume 1, Part 3 August, pages 95 - 116]
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• Noumenon
  ...ted to "[[numinous]]," a term coined by [[Rudolf Otto]] and based on the [[Latin]] numen (deity). ...u.hk/~ppp/ksp1 Kant's System of Perspectives] (Lanham: University Press of America, 1993) by [[Stephen Palmquist]]
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• 2016-10-17-New Era Transition 5
  ...d. There is great angst here among foreign nations about the situation in America, for just and good cause as well. ...the Latin cultures, as well as there is in the European cultures of North America, yet there is a more equitable balance within the home, between energies of
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• 2010-05-26-What Will Not Occur
  Student: This one is from Chile, South America. She writes: “Is there any reason why Latinos have been so slow to join ...away from that organization. What appeals to us with the South American, Latin cultures is their tremendous heart energy, their passions for belief, and i
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• Sexual Intercourse
  ...nis is also known as '''intromission''', or by the Latin name immissio '' (Latin for "insertion of the penis"). ...rld, including those found in Europe, northern and eastern Asia, and the [[America]]s. Sex, regardless of consent, with a person under the age of consent is o
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• Evil
  The legal term, malice (from the [[Latin]] ''malus'' meaning "bad") describes the deliberate human intent to harm, w ...t acceptable in some society. Less than 150 years ago the United States of America, and many other countries practiced brutal forms of slavery. During [[World
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• Community
  ''Communis'' comes from a combination of the Latin prefix ''com-'' (which means "together") and the word ''munis'' probably or ...c co(m)munité, which remained in closer formal connexion with the original Latin type. The L. word was merely a noun of quality from comm{umac}nis, meaning
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• Oxford English Dictionary
  ...rts-college]] professor, [[Francis March]], to manage the process in North America. Soon 1,000 slips per day were arriving at the Scriptorium, and by 1882 the ...age in English-speaking regions beyond the United Kingdom, including North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, and the Caribbean.
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• Conservatism
  ..., or nationally defined beliefs and customs. The term is derived from the Latin, ''com servare'', ''to preserve''; "to protect from loss or harm". Since d * America alone : the neo-conservatives and the global order / Stefan A Halper., 2004
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• Chosen People
  ...could not be dismissed, nineteenth-century religious reformers in Germany, America, and later in England, emphasized the universal nature of Israel's election ...ni—such groups as the Armenian Paulicians, the Byzantine Bogomils, and the Latin Cathari denied that they were either heretics or Manichaeans; rather, they
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• Satan
  ...glish]] ''dēofol'', that in turn represents an early Germanic borrowing of Latin ''diabolus'' (also the source of 'diabolical'). This in turn was borrowed f ...). Fallen Angels: Soldiers of Satan's Realm. Jewish Publication Society of America. ISBN 0-8276-0797-0.
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• Constitution
  The term ''constitution'' comes from [[Latin]], referring to issuing any important law, usually by the Roman emperor. L The Latin term ''[[ultra vires]]'' describes activities of officials within an organi
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• Magic
  ..., typically appearing in the feminine, in μαγική τέχνη (''magike techne'', Latin ''ars magica'') "magical art." ...was taken in ca. 1300 from Old French ''sorcerie'', which is from Vulgar [[Latin]] ''*sortiarius'', from ''sors'' "fate", apparently [[meaning]] "one who in
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• Social Sciences
  ...mics]]. He is best known for his ''[[Muqaddimah]]'' (''Prolegomenon'' in [[Latin]]). ...[Charles Sanders Peirce]] and [[William James]], he joined the movement in America called [[Pragmatism]]. He then formulated his basic doctrine, enunciated in
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