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prettygoodwordTheme week! I've got five five-letter words in the queue, so imma group 'em together for a 5x5:
reify (REE-uh-fai, RAY-uh-fai) - v., to regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence; to give definite content and form to (a concept or idea).
When the zones of control at the time a cease-fire become the de facto territories, the border is reified. See also deities considered as personifications of abstractions, such as Love. Coined around 1850 (originally in German) from Latin rē(s), thing + -ify, to make/cause (from Latin -ficāre to do/make).
---L.
reify (REE-uh-fai, RAY-uh-fai) - v., to regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence; to give definite content and form to (a concept or idea).
When the zones of control at the time a cease-fire become the de facto territories, the border is reified. See also deities considered as personifications of abstractions, such as Love. Coined around 1850 (originally in German) from Latin rē(s), thing + -ify, to make/cause (from Latin -ficāre to do/make).
---L.
