The Babylonian syllabary which thus arose, and which, as the culture passed on to the north - known as Assyria - became the Babylonian Assyrian syllabary, 3 was enlarged and modified in the course of time, the Semitic equivalents for many of the signs being distorted or abbreviated to form the basis of new "phonetic" values that were thus of " Semitic " origin; but, on the whole, the " non-Semitic " character of the signs used as syllables in the phonetic method of writing Semitic words was preserved; and, furthermore, down to the latest days of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires the mixed method of writing continued, though there were periods when " purism " was the fashion, and there was a more marked tendency to spell out the words laboriously in preference to using signs with a phonetic complement as an aid in suggesting the reading desired in any given instance.   anvd [Please select]

In equally stupid manner purism seeks to check the terrible scourge of its own creation--venereal diseases.   anvd [Please select]

A metaphysical neutrality, on the other hand, although denying that reality as such is predestined to morality--and thus affording no possibility of an ethical absolutism--becomes the true ground for an ethical purism.   anvd [Please select]

He not only Germanized all foreign words in a spirit of exaggerated purism, but also coined new verbal roots, _(Mäl, Ant, Or, Om)_ and from these formed the most extraordinary combinations (_Vereinselbganzweseninnesein, Oromlebselbstschauen_).   anvd [Please select]