Should Stygian Be Capitalized?
Merriam-Webster Lowercases "Stoic." Random House Likes It Up. It's "Stygian" Darkness at Random House, "Stygian" Darkness at Webster's. the Court Can Discover...
Merriam-Webster lowercases "stoic." Random House likes it up. It's "Stygian" darkness at Random House, "stygian" darkness at Webster's. The court can discover no bright-line rule. The mythic "Gordian" knot, named for the peasant king of Phrygia, is always capitalized.
How do you use Stygian in a sentence?
- The stygian cave led to an underground river which frightened the explorers.
- The entrance to the forest held a stygian quality which sent shivers down my spine.
- His novels were focused on the afterlife and its stygian features.
What does the name Stygian mean?
Stygian comes to us (by way of Latin stygius and Greek stygios) from Styx, the name of the principal river in Hades, the underworld of the dead in Greek mythology. ... English speakers have been using stygian to mean "of or relating to the river Styx" since the early 16th century.
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