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Christmas Words that Don't Sound Christmasy but Really Are

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I checked. These are definitely Christmas words.
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petey the prodnosed phalarope   has been listed 2 times with 2 comments
ox   has been listed 16 times with 0 comments
ass   has been listed 13 times with 1 comment
flock   has been listed 14 times with 3 comments
divorce   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
governor   has been listed 6 times with 0 comments
decree   has been listed 5 times with 0 comments
lodged   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
census   has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
flesh   has been listed 27 times with 1 comment
enrolled   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments
word   has been listed 71 times with 6 comments
birth   has been listed 9 times with 0 comments
conceived   has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
virgin   has been listed 14 times with 2 comments
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6 months ago peritus said:

The divorce passage is in Matthew 1:19. It might not sound familiar to some by exactly that term, as the KJV translates the line as saying Joseph "was minded to put her away privily", while the NAS says he "desired to put her away secretly", the NRS says he "planned to dismiss her", etc. The NIV reads that "he had in mind to divorce her quietly." The Greek text reads: ἐβουλήθη λάθρᾳ ἀπολῦσαι αὐτήν. "ἀπολῦσαι" there is the infinitive of ἀπολύω, which, in classical Greek, had several meanings, from formally acquitting a someone of a charge in a legal sense, to releasing a person for ransom or even the disbanding of an army, but in the NT, it is used to mean divorce specifically in a few places (Mark 10:2, 4 and 11, for instance), including, apparently, in this passage. Hope that helps.

6 months ago chained_bear said:

In the Bible. It was in the reading at midnight Mass. Joseph found out Mary was with child and sought to divorce her quietly. At least I think I'm remembering that right...

8 months ago jennarenn said:

Divorce? Really? Where are you looking?

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