Word of the Day challenge Options

[evlpez]

Word of the Day Challenge

I'll post a new word for each day, including its definition(s). All words are courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary unless otherwise noted.

Ferrets are asked to write a short ficlet (between 100-500 words) and include a WotD.

Submissions can be any genre, about any canon character(s) in any time period.

• There is no deadline.
• You may use any previously listed WotD once.
• You may use more than one WotD in a single submission.
• Please give each submission a title.
• You should specify the WotD used at the end of your post.
• All subs are to be posted in this topic.
• Comments for submissions must be posted in the WotD Discussion topic.
• Each submission will count as 2 Ferret Points (10 galleons) towards its writer's earnings in the Hogwarts Bathroom Fund Drive.

[evlpez]

orenda, n.

Brit. / [< Iroquoian orenda (J. N. B. Hewitt 1902, in Amer. Anthropologist 4 37: see quots. 1902) < the Huron cognate of Mohawk orenda inherent power.]

In Iroquois belief: a spirit or power thought to exist in all things.

1902 J. N. B. HEWITT in Amer. Anthropologist 4 33 (title) Orenda and a definition of religion. 1902 J. N. B. HEWITT in Amer. Anthropologist 4 37 This subsumed magic power is called..orenda by the Iroquoian tribes. And it is suggested that the Iroquoian name for the potence in question, orenda, be adopted to designate it. 1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Apr. 264/2 Notions of the type of mana or orenda are of ‘a nascently philosophic order’. 1947 C. S. LEWIS Miracles xi. 100 It [sc. pantheism] may even be the most primitive of all religions, and the orenda of a savage tribe has been interpreted by some to be an ‘all-pervasive spirit’. 1971 J. VAN BAAL Symbols for Communication VI . 129 The trend towards mystic participation is expressed in concepts such as mana, wakenda, orenda, and so on, which give scope to the mystic connections underlying things and events. 2000 Beaver (Winnipeg) (Nexis) July V , Everyone was thought to hold a certain amount of personal power or orenda suitable for making offerings and entreaties to spirits for luck in battle, for protection of one's home and family, or to encourage the season's crops to grow well.