ruth f. benedict

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noun

Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.

Saint, a.d. 480?–543?, Italian monk: founded Benedictine order.

Stanley Ros·si·ter

[ros-i-ter] , 1884–1936, U.S. biochemist.

a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “blessed.”

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Benedict (ˈbɛnɪˌdɪkt)

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	Saint. ?480--?547 ad, Italian monk: founded the Benedictine order at Monte Cassino in Italy in about 540 ad. His Regula Monachorum became the basis of the rule of all Western Christian monastic orders. Feast day: July 11 or March 14

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benedict

"newly married man" (especially one who had seemed a confirmed bachelor), 1821, from the character Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1599). The name is from L.L. Benedictus, lit. "blessed," from L. benedicte "bless (you)" (see benediction). This also produced the

proper name Bennet; hence also benet (late 14c.), the third of the four lesser orders of the Roman Catholic Church, one of whose functions was to exorcize spirits.

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"... no book ... ever competed with the Bible. The story of Ruth was better than Ramona, and the poetry of Job was better than Longfellow. I still have my first big Bible, carefully underlined through with red and black ink, and interleafed [sic] with painfully written manuscript pages.... Margery and I earned our five cents a week for church and a penny for Sunday school by learning three verses of the Bible a day and six on Sunday. We learned dozens and dozens of chapters. I supposed "Evangeline" and "Hiawatha" were better poetry, but I didn't like them so well."

-Ruth Benedict

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