context
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1. context - Noun
2. context - Adjective
3. context - Verb
Meaning
Knit or woven together; close; firm.
The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.
To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Taken out of context I must seem so strange.
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.
It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.
Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.