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word-hoard

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word-hoard (wûrdhôrd, -hrd)
n.
The sum of words one uses or understands; a vocabulary.

[Translation of Old English wordhord.]


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to see the heroic scene of literature itself, throughout the world, where men and women writers make and have made the most skillful use of the word-hoard of language and the freedom of fiction to preserve our collective past and to make sense out of things that in their multitude are always threatening to fly apart into chaos" (ix).
A sequence of sequences makes up the second part of Seeing Things;here Heaney contrasts the plain, clear sentences that let us see the things that he sees, with visions discovered and launched in words from his word-hoard.
A sequence of sequences makes up the second part of Seeing Things;here Heaney contrasts the plain, clear sentences that let us see the things that he sees, with visions discovered and launched in words from his word-hoard.
 
 
 
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