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Euphemism
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Is in speech or writing the avoiding of an unpleasant or indelicate word or expression by the use of one which is less direct, and which calls up a less disagreeable image in the mind. Thus for "he died" is substituted "he fell asleep," or "he is gathered to his fathers"; thus the Greeks called the "Furies" the "Eumenides," "the benign goddesses," just as country people used to call elves and fairies "the good folk neighbours."
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Euphemism'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/e/euphemism.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Euphemism'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/e/euphemism.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
