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non-treasure

noun

Etymology

From non- + treasure.

  1. derived from θησαυρός
  2. derived from thēsaurus
  3. derived from tresor
  4. inherited from tresour
  5. prefixed as non-treasure — “non + treasure”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of nontreasure.

    • Several of our non-treasures had to be dismissed within days for intolerable personal filthiness (there was the celebrated case of the louse on the table-napkin. . .) or irredeemable incompetence, or both.
    • Even in the normative tradition of recent centuries, core treasure liturgies are enhanced by ritual texts composed by means of ordinary, non-treasure authorship and yet these become regarded as treasure as well.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for non-treasure. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA