Definitions

“Let us face headlong the reality of what we’ve experienced by putting names to the very things that have broken us bit by bit; for it’s then that we can take the particulars to the Lord for cleansing; needfully praying to forgive the offense and offender. I’ve discovered it to be a necessary step toward healing and restoration.” Sherri Tilman

Negatives: (Don’t be dismayed, I’ll be compiling the positives for publication also)

Example: Waste – The substance (part of me, as my heart)  that is left (broken) after the rest (marriage) valuable part of it has been used, a bad use of something valuable that you have only a limited amount of.

Hateful – HA’TEFUL, adjective Odious; exciting great dislike, aversion or disgust. All sin is hateful in the sight of God and of good men.  Romans 5:12

That feels hatred; malignant; malevolent. And, worse than death, to view with hateful eyes. Odiously, with great dislike, malignant, malicious. Psalm 109:5

Intimidate – NTIM’IDATE, verb transitive [Latin timidus, fearful; timeo, to fear.] To make fearful; to inspire with fear; to dishearten; to abash. Colossians 3:21

FORSA’KEN, participle passive Deserted; left; abandoned.

Malignant – MALIG’NANT, adjective [Latin malignus, maligno, from malus, evil.]

1. Malicious; having extreme malevolence or enmity; as a malignant heart.

2. Unpropitious; exerting pernicious influence; as malignant start.

3. Virulent; as a malignant ulcer.

4. Dangerous to life; as a malignant fever.

5. Extremely heinous; as the malignant nature of sin.

MALIG’NANT, noun A man of extreme enmity or evil intentions.

Malevolent – MALEV’OLENT, adjective Having an evil disposition towards another or others; wishing evil to others; ill disposed, or disposed to injure others. A malevolent heart rejoices in the misfortunes of others.

1. Unfavorable; unpropitious; bringing calamity.

Unpropitious – UNFA’VORABLE, adjective

1. Not favorable; not propitious; not disposed or adapted to countenance or support.

2. Not propitious; not adapted to promote any object.

3. Not kind; not obliging.

4. Discouraging; as unfavorable prospects.

Refuse – REFU’SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin recuso; re and the root of causor, to accuse; causa, cause. The primary sense of causor is to drive, to throw or thrust at, and recuso is to drive back, to repel or repulse, the sense of refuse.]

1. To deny a request, demand, invitation or command; to decline to do or grant what is solicited, claimed or commanded. Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border. Numbers 20:21

2. To decline to accept what is offered; as, to refuse an office; to refuse an offer. If they refuse to take the cup at thy hand. Jeremiah 25:28

3. To reject; as, to refuse instruction or reproof. Proverbs 10:1 The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner. Psalms 118:22 [Note – refuse expenses rejection more strongly than decline.]

REFU’SE, verb intransitive s as z. To decline to accept; not to comply. Psalm 78:10

REF’USE, adjective Literally, refused; rejected; hence, worthless; of no value; left as unworthy of reception.

REF’USE, noun  That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste matter.

Remains – REMA’INS, noun plural  That which is left after a part is separated, taken away or destroyed.

Thrown – THROWN, participle passive of throw. Cast; hurled; wound or twisted; to remove from a place, office, or employment usually in a sudden or unexpected manner; to get rid of as worthless or unnecessary.

Rip – RIP, verb transitive [Latin rapio. Eng. reap and rive; allied perhaps to the Latin crepo.] To separate by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip open a garment by cutting the stitches. Apply it to a partial tearing of the skin and flesh.

Rive – RIVE, verb transitive preterit tense rived; participle passive rived or riven. To split; to cleave; to rend asunder by force.

RIVE, verb intransitive To be split or rent asunder. Freestone rives, splits and breaks in any direction.

Treachery – TREACHERY, noun trech’ery. Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence. The man who betrays his country in any manner, violates his allegiance, and is guilty of treachery. This is treason. The man who violates his faith pledged to his friend, or betrays a trust in which a promise of fidelity is implied, is guilty of treachery. The disclosure of a secret committed to one in confidence, is treachery. This is perfidy.

Perfidy – PER’FIDY, noun [Latin perfidia; per and fides, faith.] The act of violating faith, a promise, vow or allegiance; treachery; the violation of a trust reposed. Perfidy is not applied to violations of contracts in ordinary pecuniary transactions, but to violations of faith or trust in friendship, in agency and office, in allegiance, in connubial engagements, and in the transactions of kings.

Connubial – CONNUBIAL, adjective [Latin , to marry.] Pertaining to marriage; nuptial; belonging to the state of husband and wife; as, connubial rites; connubial love.

Deceit – DECE’IT,

1. Literally, a catching or ensnaring. Hence, the misleading of a person; the leading of another person to believe what is false, or not to believe what is true, and thus to ensnare him; fraud; fallacy; cheat; any declaration, artifice or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false. My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit Job 27:4

2. Stratagem; artifice; device intended to mislead. They imagine deceits all the day long. Psalms 38:12

3. In scripture, that which is obtained by guile, fraud or oppression. Their houses are full of deceit Jeremiah 5:27, Zephaniah. 1:9

4. In law, any trick, device, craft, collusion, shift, covin, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. 1 Thessalonians 4:6

Violence – VI’OLENCE, noun [Latin violentia.]

1. Physical force; strength of action or motion; as the violence of a storm; the violence of a blow or of a conflict.

2. Moral force; vehemence. The critic attacked the work with violence.

3. Outrage; unjust force; crimes of all kinds. The earth was filled with violence Genesis 6:11

4. Eagerness; vehemence. You ask with violence.

5. Injury; infringement. Offer no violence to the laws, or to the rules of civility.

6. Injury; hurt. Do violence to no man. Luke 3:14

7. Ravishment; rape. To do violence to or on,;to attack; to murder. But, as it seems, did violence on herself. To do violence to, to outrage; to force; to injure. He does violence to his own opinions.

VI’OLENCE, verb transitive To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence. 

Betray – BETRA’Y, verb transitive [Latin traho.]

1. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; as, an officer betrayed the city. The son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Matthew 17:22

2. To violate by fraud, or unfaithfulness; as, to betray a trust.

If the people of America ever betray their trust, their guilt will merit even greater punishment than other nations have suffered, and the indignation of heaven.

3. To violate confidence by disclosing a secret, or that which was intrusted; to expose; followed by the person, or the thing; as, my friend betrayed me, or betrayed the secret.

4. To disclose, or permit to appear, what is intended to be kept secret, or what prudence would conceal.

Be swift to hear, but cautions of your tongue, lest you betray your ignorance. James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

5. To mislead or expose to inconvenience not foreseen; as, great confidence betrays a man into errors.

6. To show; to discover; to indicate what is not obvious at first view, or would otherwise be concealed.

7. To fail, or deceive.

Shred – SHRED, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive shred. To cut into small pieces, particularly marrow and long pieces, as of cloth or lether, to cut or tear something into small pieces.

Discard- DISCARD, verb transitive

1. To throw out of the hand such…as are useless.

2. To dismiss from service or employment, or from society; to cast off; as, to discard spies and informers; to discard an old servant; to discard an associate.

3. To thrust away; to reject; as, to discard prejudices. To throw away or get rid of something because you no longer want it.

Reject – REJECT‘, verb transitive [Latin rejicio, rejectus, re and jacio, to throw.]

1. To throw away, as any thing useless or vile.

2. To cast off. Have I rejected those that me ador’d?

3. To cast off; to forsake. Jeremiah 7:29

4. To refuse to receive; to slight; to despise. Because thou has rejected knowledge, I will reject thee. Hosea 4:6, 1 Samuel 15:23

5. To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.

6. To refuse to accept; as, to reject an offer. To refuse to accept, use, or believe something or someone.

Spoil – SPOIL, verb transitive [Latin , to pull asunder, to tear, to strip, to peel.] Colossians 2:8

1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to rob; with of; as, to spoil one of his goods or possessions.

2. To seize by violence; to take by force; as, to spoil ones goods.

3. To corrupt; to cause to decay and perish.

4. To corrupt; to vitiate; to mar.

5. To ruin; to destroy.

6. To render useless by injury.

7. To injure fatally.

SPOIL, verb intransitive

1. To practice plunder or robbery.

2. To decay; to lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted.

SPOIL, noun [Latin]

1. That which is taken from others by violence; particularly in war, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.

2. That which is gained by strength or effort.

3. That which is taken from another without license.

4. The act or practice of plundering; robbery; waste.

5. Corruption; cause of corruption.

Vitiate – VI’TIATE, verb transitive [Latin vitio. See vice and Viciate.]

1. To injure the substance or qualities of a thing, so as to impair or spoil its use and value.

2. To render defective; to destroy; as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction.

Used – U’SED, participle passive s as z. Employed; occupied; treated.

Burned – BURN’ED, BURNT, participle passive Consumed with fire; scorched or dried with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire. to hurt, damage, or destroy something by fire or extreme heat

Debris – DEBRIS, noun debree’. Fragments; rubbish; ruins.

Ruin – RU’IN, noun [Latin ruo, to fall, to rush down.]

1. Destruction; fall; overthrow; defeat; that change of any thing which destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; as the ruin of a house; the ruin of health; the ruin of commerce; the ruin of public or private happiness; the ruin of a project.

2. Mischief; bane; that which destroys.

3. Ruin more generally ruins, the remains of a decayed or demolished city, house, fortress, or any work of art or other thing.

4. The decayed or enfeebled remains of a natural object; as, the venerable old man presents a great mind in ruins.

5. The cause of destruction. They were the ruin of him and of all Israel. 2 Chronicles 28:23

RU’IN, v, t,

1. To demolish; to pull down, burn, or otherwise destroy.

2. To subvert; to destroy.

3. To destroy; to bring to an end.

4. To destroy in any manner; as, to ruin health or happiness; to ruin reputation.

5. To counteract; to defeat; as, to ruin a plan or project.

6. To deprive of felicity or fortune.

7. To impoverish; as, to be ruined by speculation.

8. To bring to everlasting misery; as, to ruin the soul.

RU’IN, verb intransitive

1. To fall into ruins.

2. To run to ruin; to fall into decay or be dilapidated.

3. To be reduced; to be brought to poverty or misery.

Dregs – DREGS, noun plural [Gr.]Waste or worthless matter; dross; sweepings; refuse. Hence, the most vile and despicable part of men; as the dregs of society.

Excess – EXCESS‘, noun [Latin excessus, from excedo. In morals, any indulgence of appetite, passion or exertion, beyond the rules of God’s word, or beyond any rule of propriety; intemperance in gratifications.

Filth – FILTH, noun 

1. Dirt; any foul matter; any thing that soils or defiles; waste matter; nastiness.

2. Corruption; pollution; any thing that sullies or defiles the moral character. James 1:21

Fragment – FRAG’MENT, noun [Latin fragmentum, from frango, to break.]

A part broken off; a piece separated from any thing by breaking.

Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing is lost. John 6:12

Offal – OF’FAL, noun

Refuse; that which is thrown away as of no value.  Any thing of no value; rubbish.

Leavings – LE’AVINGS, noun plural

1. Things left; remnant; relics.

2. Refuse; offal.

Litter – LIT’TER, noun [Latin lectus, from the root of lego, Eng. lay.]

Waste matters, shreds, fragments and the like, scattered on a floor or other clean place.

LIT’TER, verb transitive

1.  It is sometimes applied to human beings in contempt.

2. To scatter over carelessly with shreds, fragments and the like.

Residue – RES’IDUE, noun [Latin residuus.]

That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed or designated.

The American Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1828 – Noah Webster (1758-1843)

Scripture references King James Version