Word of the Day

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Armistice

\ AHR-muh-stis \, noun;

A temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties

Then one day, without warning, as though she, too, had accepted the armistice

and the capitulation,the grandmother departed to visit her son in Mills City.

-- William Faulkner, Elly

Bill had eaten at the restaurant in 1918, and right after the armistice, and Madame

Lecomte made a great fuss over seeing him.

-- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Armistice is a Latin compound created by 17th century scholars. The Latin arma-,

"arms," combines with sistere, "to be still."

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