Weird Words from Deep unto Deep

Dana Candler is an expert in the English language. Personally, her style is very difficult for me to handle, but I do recognize that she is very good at it. Her style incorporates an incredible vocabulary uncommon in our day.

Here's a couple of examples:

"How do our weak hearts enter the holy torrents of Divine Love?"

"We stand on our tiptoes on the precipice of time, peering into eternity with a steady gaze, ever searching the horizon for the One who lives outside of time."

Uhhg. Beauty, mixed with horror. Like the witch from Narnia, her use of language is both attractive and repulsive.

Why am I bringing this up? Well, I'm re-reading her book. I never thought I would, but God has humbled me, and brought me into a "season" (uhhg) in which I am desperate for intimacy.

But rather than go on and on about me, I thought you, my readers, would enjoy my list of weird words and phrases that I find while reading.

Try saying them slowly a number of times, as gratuitously as you can.

• holy torrents of divine love
• embrace
• deep ache
• kindled flame
• tangibly
• transpiring
• ravished
• pierce
• precipice
• cherishes
• precious
• saturated
• discern - "dizzern" as Mike B pronounces it.

-out

Weird Words: "s-w" words

Tonights post is dedicated my weird word aficionados, Kelly aka K-Diggy, and Molly Mo.

1. "Swoop" |swoōp|

Daniel 9:21
"...while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gavri'el, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, swooped down on me in full flight..."

2. "Swirl" |swərl|

I feel like I'm caught in a swirl.

3. "Swell" |swel|

verb ( past part. swollen |ˈswōlən|or swelled ) [ intrans. ]
ORIGIN Old English swellan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to German schwellen. Current senses of the noun date from the early 16th cent.; the informal adjectival use derives from noun sense 4 (late 18th cent.).

adjective informal dated excellent; very good, super well :
you're looking swell. • archaic smart; fashionable : a swell boulevard.

4. "Swarm" |swôrm|

noun a large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.

PHRASAL VERBS swarm up climb (something) rapidly by gripping it with one's hands and feet, alternately hauling and pushing oneself upward : I swarmed up the mast. [ORIGIN: mid 16th cent.: of unknown origin.]
ORIGIN Old English swearm (noun), of Germanic origin; related to German Schwarm, probably also to the base of Sanskrit svarati ‘it sounds.’

5. "Swank" |swa ng k| informal

verb [ intrans. ] display one's wealth, knowledge, or achievements in a way that is intended to impress others : swanking about, playing the dashing young master spy.

6. "Swindle" |ˈswindl|

a fraudulent scheme or action

Put them all together, what do we get?

A swarm of swollen insects swirling around, swooping down, trying to swindle my swank!

Weird Word #1

It's long overdue, but I am officially starting my list of weird words.

Here's #1:

Partook:

partook |pärˈtoŏk| past of partake .

Partake:
verb ( past -took |-ˈtoŏk|; past part. -taken |-ˈtākən|) [ intrans. ]
( partake in) formal join in (an activity) : visitors can partake in golfing or clay pigeon shooting.
( partake of) be characterized by (a quality) : the birth of twins became an event that partook of the mythic.
( partake of) eat or drink (something) : she had partaken of a cheese sandwich and a cup of coffee.

Analysis:
It's more just the sound and look of the word that is weird, and only in the past tense. Maybe I'm just in that weird tired place where all words sound weird.

"Partook... Par-tuke..." ew.

Ro-ad...