English Synonyms and Antonyms

Science does not, like the mechanic arts, make production its direct aim, yet its possible productive
application in the arts is a constant stimulus to scientific investigation; the science, as in the case of chemistry
or electricity, is urged on to higher development by the demands of the art, while the art is perfected by the
advance of the science. Creative art seeking beauty for its own sake is closely akin to pure science seeking
knowledge for its own sake. Compare KNOWLEDGE; LITERATURE.
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SECURITY.
Synonyms:
bail, earnest, gage, pledge, surety.
The first four words agree in denoting something given or deposited as an assurance of something to be given,
paid, or done. An earnest is of the same kind as that to be given, a portion of it delivered in advance, as when
part of the purchase-money is paid, according to the common expression, "to bind the bargain." A pledge or
security may be wholly different in kind from that to be given or paid, and may greatly exceed it in value.
Security may be of real or personal property--anything of sufficient value to make the creditor secure; a
pledge is always of personal property or chattels. Every pawnshop contains unredeemed pledges; land,
merchandise, bonds, etc., are frequently offered and accepted as security. A person may become security or
surety for another's payment of a debt, appearance in court, etc.; in the latter case, he is said to become bail for
that person; the person accused gives bail for himself. Gage survives only as a literary word, chiefly in certain
phrases; as, "the gage of battle."
Prepositions:
Security for the payment of a debt; security to the state, for the prisoner, in the sum of a thousand dollars.
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Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
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SELF-ABNEGATION.
Synonyms:
self-control, self-devotion, self-renunciation, self-denial, self-immolation, self-sacrifice.
Self-control is holding oneself within due limits in pleasures and duties, as in all things else; self-denial, the
giving up of pleasures for the sake of duty. Self-renunciation surrenders conscious rights and claims;
self-abnegation forgets that there is anything to surrender. There have been devotees who practised very little
self-denial with very much self-renunciation. A mother will care for a sick child with complete
self-abnegation, but without a thought of self-denial. Self-devotion is heart-consecration of self to a person or
cause with readiness for any needed sacrifice. Self-sacrifice is the strongest and completest term of all, and
contemplates the gift of self as actually made. We speak of the self-sacrifice of Christ, where any other of the
above terms would be feeble or inappropriate.
Antonyms:
self-gratification, selfishness, self-seeking, self-will. self-indulgence,
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SEND.
Synonyms:
cast, despatch, emit, impel, propel, dart, discharge, fling, lance, sling, delegate, dismiss, forward, launch,
throw, depute, drive, hurl, project, transmit.
To send is to cause to go or pass from one place to another, and always in fact or thought away from the agent
or agency that controls the act. Send in its most common use involves personal agency without personal
presence; according to the adage, "If you want your business done, go; if not, send;" one sends a letter or a
bullet, a messenger or a message. In all the derived uses this same idea controls; if one sends a ball into his
own heart, the action is away from the directing hand, and he is viewed as the passive recipient of his own act;
it is with an approach to personification that we speak of the bow sending the arrow, or the gun the shot. To