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RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the...
SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as...
REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
Source: The...
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the...
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty,...
RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the...
SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which...
RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are...
RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor....
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character...
ROAD, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to...
SELF-ESTEEM,n. An erroneous appraisal.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his...
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it.
Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to...
RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
Source: The Devil's...
ROBBER, n. A candid man of affairs.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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SELF-EVIDENT, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
Source: The Devil's...
REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it...
RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose,...
RIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.