List Words
Swarthiness
The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.
Chaffering
of Chaffer
Listening
of Listen
Chancellorship
The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
Episcopate
A bishopric; the office and dignity of a bishop.
Masterdom
Dominion; rule; command.
Shrievalty
The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff; sheriffalty.
Governorship
The office of a governor.
Indefiniteness
The quality of being indefinite.
Ingloriousness
The state of being inglorious.
Opaqueness
The state or quality of being impervious to light; opacity.
Sheriffalty
Alt. of Sheriffwick
Prebendaryship
The office of a prebendary.
Regency
The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.
Dimness
The state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.
Imprecision
Want of precision.
Shadowiness
The quality or state of being shadowy.
Foster
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relat..
Bishopdom
Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate.
Duskiness
The state of being dusky.
Abstruseness
The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.
Huckster
A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker.
Duchy
The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom.
Archiepiscopacy
That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.
Lighted
of Light
Prebend
A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice.
Archdeaconry
The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice.
Spiritualism
The quality or state of being spiritual.
Sparkling
Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes.
Star-spangled
Spangled or studded with stars.
Auscultation
The act of listening or hearkening to.
Feebleness
The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
Devolvement
The act or process of devolving;; devolution.
Provostship
The office of a provost.
Theocracy
Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.
Episcopacy
Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different..
Cheap-jack
Alt. of Cheap-john
Peddler
One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker.
License
Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such ..
Arab
One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc.
Decrescendo
With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.
Hegemony
Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.
Peddle
To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.
Lowness
The state or quality of being low.
Actuate
To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.
Lactate
A salt of lactic acid.
Tinselly
Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.
Cingulum
The base of the crown of a tooth.
Propel
To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.
Edify
To build; to construct.
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
