Word: comprehendingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a man defies biography. The writer of it should have both the religious passion to comprehend how a man who sometimes seemed almost a devil could also be almost a saint; and the theological dispassion to talk, without raising his voice, about the most controversial Christian of modern times. Biographer Bainton has plenty of dispassion, and also a handsome way of writing. His Luther biography is easily the most readable in English; if it fails to understand all the Martin Luthers and to reconcile them in one man, that was more than Luther could do, either...
...forward in speech and behavior, saucy, cheeky and malapert." After that the S.O.E.D. proclaims that pert "may be used as a vague expression of disfavor." Comes now, "bold," followed by "esp. in a bad sense" and after that "audacious, lively, bright, sprightly, in good spirits, or jolly." . . . . . You comprehend my dilemma? I don't know whether to send you flowers, three additional subscriptions, or call my lawyers...