agathokakological
Mar. 14th, 2014 07:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordagathokakological - adj., composed of both good and evil.
This seems to have been a nonce-word created by poet laureate Robert Southey (the deserved target of Byron's ire in The Vision of Judgement and the preface to Don Juan) from Greek roots agathos, good + kakos, bad + -logical, used as an adjectival ending. "For indeed upon the agathokakological globe there are opposite qualities always to be found" is the standard usage example, to the point I wonder if it's been used ever since.
---L.
This seems to have been a nonce-word created by poet laureate Robert Southey (the deserved target of Byron's ire in The Vision of Judgement and the preface to Don Juan) from Greek roots agathos, good + kakos, bad + -logical, used as an adjectival ending. "For indeed upon the agathokakological globe there are opposite qualities always to be found" is the standard usage example, to the point I wonder if it's been used ever since.
---L.
