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Etymology
Blend of Brainwash and Blackmail
Noun
To extort an effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas.
Verb
to brainmail (third-person singular simple present brainmails, present participle brainmailing, simple past and past participle brainmailed)
1. To affect and extort one's mind by using extreme mental pressure by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud
2. To persuade & re-educate
3. consisting and threatening to reveal substantially true information about a person to the public, a family member, or associates unless a demand made upon the victim is met. of any effort aimed at instilling certain attitudes and beliefs in a person — beliefs sometimes unwelcome or in conflict with the person's prior beliefs and knowledge.
Blend of Brainwash and Blackmail
Noun
To extort an effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas.
Verb
to brainmail (third-person singular simple present brainmails, present participle brainmailing, simple past and past participle brainmailed)
1. To affect and extort one's mind by using extreme mental pressure by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud
2. To persuade & re-educate
3. consisting and threatening to reveal substantially true information about a person to the public, a family member, or associates unless a demand made upon the victim is met. of any effort aimed at instilling certain attitudes and beliefs in a person — beliefs sometimes unwelcome or in conflict with the person's prior beliefs and knowledge.
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Noun
The characteristic of being humble, good breeding, and nobility of stock.
Noun
The characteristic of being humble, good breeding, and nobility of stock.
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The quality or state of being selfishly proud, inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, other possessions, and/or often contempt of others.
Derived terms
Grideful, Grideness, Gridely
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Grided Person
The quality or state of being selfishly proud, inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, other possessions, and/or often contempt of others.
Derived terms
Grideful, Grideness, Gridely
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Grided Person
Clayton Endicott III from the spin-off sitcom called Benson is the most Grideful chief of staff ever.
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A girlfriend, wife, sister or daughter of a Hero kidnapped by an evil scumbag resultingin a Rescue Mission or Ransom.
A girlfriend, wife, sister or daughter of a Hero kidnapped by an evil scumbag resultingin a Rescue Mission or Ransom.
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Noun
Licon (plural Licons)
1. A story of unknown image, picture, or other representational origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.
2. A story in which a kernel of truth is embellished to an unlikely degree often done on wooden panels.
3. A leading protagonist in a historical legendary person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
4. Any person of extraordinary accomplishment which represents something.
5. A fabricated backstory of Heroes and Villians, complete with appropriate documents and records, whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic persons are necessarily all Licons.
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Noun
Licon (plural Licons)
1. A story of unknown image, picture, or other representational origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.
2. A story in which a kernel of truth is embellished to an unlikely degree often done on wooden panels.
3. A leading protagonist in a historical legendary person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
4. Any person of extraordinary accomplishment which represents something.
5. A fabricated backstory of Heroes and Villians, complete with appropriate documents and records, whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic persons are necessarily all Licons.
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Liconic, Liconical,
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