Etymology and Historical Context

It's Meram Webster's Word of the dayay for june twenty fifth There's nothing like my American Express Platinum card. I love that I can earn hotel credits when I travel. I can also earn resi credits, so you know I'm hitting the restaurants everyone's talking about. Plus, with the digital entertainment credit, I'm even more excited to catch my favorite shows. All in all, I can access over three thousand five hundred dollars in annual value with benefits and eligible purchases across travel, entertainment, and more Learn more at Americanexpress d. com slash exploreash platinum. Enrollment requirements, monthly and other limits and terms apply Today's word is jauundist, spelled J A U N D I C E D. Jaundist is an adjective. It means showing or influenced by feelings of distrust, distaste, or hostility someomeone described as jaundist or as possessing jaundist opinions or views. is typically understood to feel that way because of negative past experiences Here's the word used In a sentence from the retrospect of Collingswood, New Jersey Now, I'm not accusing the mayor of anything. I'm saying that all of these actions were highly inappropriate for an elected official I voted for her, but will forevermore look at her actions with a jaundist eye Cast not a jaundist eye on the word jaundist. And by that we mean this Don't dislike or distrust the word jauundic just because of past experiences with the word or others like it jauundist is handy for describing the grumps among us who tend toward envy, aversion, or hostility. And who doesn't know a few of those useful seventeenth century adjective. It comes from an also useful fourteenth century noun, jaundice, that still refers to a medical condition in which excess biopigments in the bloodstream and body tissues cause a person's skin to turn yellow