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The long history of the word 'weird'
Where did this bizarre word come from, and how has it changed over the centuries?
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), it meant, “The principle, power, or agency by which events are predetermined; fate, destiny.” Over the subsequent centuries, weird also came to refer to a witch, a wizard, an omen, or a prophecy. The OED defines the original sense of adjectival weird as “Having the power to control the fate or destiny of human beings, etc. Like many words (including fantastic, horrible, and terrific), weird has undergone a process known as amelioration —a softening and broadening in meaning.
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