Hypernym

• BELIEVEATTITUDE IN-RELATION-TO a THINK:thought to the effect that this THOUGHT is TRUE.
  • ATTITUDERELATION between a HUMAN who FEELS and PERCEIVED OBJECTS involving a TENDENDY to REACT.
    • RELATIONFEATURE of TWO OR MORE THINGS TOGETHER.
      • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE....

Modern Chinese Criteria

• De Rerum Humanarum Emendatione ( COMENIUS 1665) p. 637

  RUMOR est publice sine authore certo ortus de re qvapiam sermo. Conc. 1. ut publice fiat. 2. incerto authore veniat. 3. certi nihil habeat.

• Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

  RUMOUR

  rumor "report, word-of-mouth" is the uncertain, often clandestine dissemination of hidden facts, and this is typically of interest only by its novelty, is an object of curiosity, and passes away with the generation in which it sprung up.

  fama "information" is the open and public dissemination of some facts, and the fama is typically of interest through its importance, and will often be handed down to posterity as permanent knowledge.

• Theophrast, Charaktere ( THEOPHRASTUS 1960) p. no. 8

• Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology ( BARNARD AND SPENCER 2002) p.

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