Not a fighter, but will knock your lights out. Can be VERY irritating to others when they try to explain or tell a story. Loves their pets usually more than their family. The Muncie Evening Press (Muncie, IN), 24 Mar.AQUARIUS – Does It in the Water (January 20 to February 18) The tendency to catastrophize, to worry, spirals down and leads to depression, guilt feelings and even suicide. But in the middle of the 20th century psychologists gave it a new sense, defined above, and now catastrophize has been pulled ever so slightly back from utter oblivion. The word was always quite rare, and thus little recorded in dictionaries. Not as they ought to serve, but undermine,Īnd to Catastrophise God's Wonderful Design Who, tho' for ever Damn'd, han't half their Due Somewhat after this the word begins to crop up occasionally, in the sense "to make a catastrophe of," using catastrophe in the "fiasco" sense. Henry Cockeram defined it in 1623 as "to end a comedie, or the like," which is less confusing when one realizes that the earliest meaning of catastrophe referred to the final action of a play. The action of the worrywart par excellence, catastrophize has a bit of an odd history.
1860ĭefinition - to imagine the worst possible outcome of an action or event : to think about a situation or event as being a catastrophe or having a potentially catastrophic outcome The Delaware Gazette (Delaware, OH), 9 Nov. If so, she bore it meekly, thanking God that he vouchsafed to keep her from the greater sin of mis-marriage. It is immaterial to the world whether this was a cause of sorrow to her or not. There is mésalliance ("a marriage with a person of inferior social position"), hypogamy ("marriage into a lower caste, class, or social group"), and the astonishingly specific morganatic ("of, relating to, or being a marriage between a member of a royal or noble family and a person of inferior rank in which the rank of the inferior partner remains unchanged and the children of the marriage do not succeed to the titles, fiefs, or entailed property of the parent of higher rank").īut what of the marriage that is composed of social equals, yet still manages to be unsuitable? English has that covered as well, for mismarriage is broad enough to describe unhappy unions of any sort. The English language, rich in the description of cooled ardor and poor choices, has a variety of words which may be grouped in the category of 'marital/bad.' For instance, we have a number of distinct words for referring to marriages between people who are socially unequal. Definition - an unsuitable marriage or union