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- From: ettamminen@cc.helsinki.fi (Tapio Tamminen)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Panglossian?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.142921.1@cc.helsinki.fi>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 12:29:21 GMT
- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 21
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- >> Roger, you have this amazingly panglossian view of the world. Anything
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- > Can someone please tell me the meaning of this word? Unfortunately I
- > do not have my Chambers dictionary with me :( and the Websters
- > (oh, how I hate even to look at it; but alas, I have no other option)
- > doesn't list it. A previous article mentioned that the on-line OED
- > is inaccessible.
- >
- >
- > Thanks,
- > Mandar.
-
- Webster's Third New International:
- panglossian adj, usu cap [Pangloss, optimistic tutor of Candide in the
- satire Candide (1759) by Voltaire]: marked by the view that all is for the
- best in this best of possible worlds <~ economists... who had not so much
- predicted as seen the millenium>
-
- You're welcome,
- Tapio.
-