Word: chit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...soul, ill-understood, but known as mind; and lastly the method of arresting the migration of the mind and restoring it at length to the soul. This is a grander conception than any other ancient religion. These woodmen the Brahmins call God by three different names. "Sut," meaning being; "Chit," intelligence; "Anando," bliss or joy. Good authorities state that the Hindoo religion is dark and despairing, but this is not so. For this pessimistic idea springs not from despair but from disdain. In the spirit of divine ecstacy the Buddhist and Brahmin put aside pleasure of existence, trying...
...neither you nor your audience had ever met or heard of one. And so, instead of a handsome, charming, dazzling, fascinating creature, that bewitches with her art, I care not if it be good or bad, you show some whining, tearful, beseeching virgin, or some simple, twaddling, namby-pamby chit, whose only excuse for being good is that she don't know...