A-Z: General definitions
- Obeah
- Oberon
- Objective correlative
- Objectivity
- Oblate
- Oblation
- Obscene
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- Octave
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- Odysseus and Circe
- Odysseus and Scylla and Charybdis
- Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus
- Odysseus and the Sirens
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- Oedipus complex
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- Omniscient Narrator
- One thing is needful
- Onesimus
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- Oral Literature
A-Z: General definitions: Oblate
Definition
A child given by his / her parents to a monastery, to be brought up as a monk or nun.Translation
Latin: oblatus, 'offered, presented, bestowed'.The house of a religious community.
Member of male religious community.
A woman who has chosen to enter a religious order for women, and taken the appropriate vows.
