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Noah Webster was the patriot armed with a pen. He defined 12,000 new words in the wake of the American Revolution, using ...

In our dictionaries, virtue defines a person who is morally good. Biblically speaking, virtue is related to godliness as we ...

White evangelical Christians have long been a core voting bloc for Republicans, particularly supporting culturally conservative policies.

History shows humans have always acknowledged the existence of the supernatural and engaged in practices to worship or ...

There are words commonly used in academic spaces that are complex and unnecessary. These words are used to make a sentence ...

The word “academic” derives from Plato’s Academy, which he founded on ground that was named after the legendary Greek hero Academos, or Hekademos. And academic was someone who taught or studied at the ...

Polyamory is often in the news, with salacious articles about “sex-crazed throuples” thrown around on a regular basis by the ...

We need to learn how to ask the right questions about our relationship with technology, examining it with clear eyes grounded ...

What thoughts does the word love provoke in you? Is love the same as compassion? Is the current cultural definition of love ...

Everyone has a preferred slang word for their vagina ... we probably shouldn't be using this one as an adult. Though Urban Dictionary does define 'Fufu Land' as a magical place ...

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Oasis split in 2009 after many years of infighting, with Noel Gallagher leaving the band just before a performance at a ...