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unceremonious

adj

Etymology

From un- + ceremonious.

  1. derived from *kʷer-✻ — “to build, make; to do”
  2. derived from caerimōnia — “awe, reverence, veneration; sacredness, sanctity; religious ceremony, ritual”
  3. learned borrowing from caerimōniōsus
  4. learned borrowing from cérémonieux
  5. prefixed as unceremonious — “un + ceremonious”

Definitions

  1. Not ceremonious.

    • Mrs. De Brooke replied, that she could have no objection to form the acquaintance of Mrs. Belmour, since it appeared she was so unceremonious and so conformable to the taste of her friends, in respect to her mode of visiting them.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unceremonious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at unceremonious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at unceremonious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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