Fifty-six percent of voters support the birth control coverage benefit, including 53 percent of Catholic voters, and 62 percent of Catholics who identify themselves as independents, according to a new Public Policy Polling Poll.
sylph (plural sylphs) ( 1 mythology) An invisible being of the air. 2  The elemental being of air, usually female. A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people. 1811, Mary Bruton, Self-Control (novel): Her heart fluttered with expectationâher step was buoyant with hope, and she sprung into the carriage with the lightness of a sylph.
anthropomorphism definition. (an-thruh-puh-mawr-fiz-uhm) The attributing of human characteristics and purposes to inanimate objects, animals, plants, or other natural phenomena, or to God. To describe a rushing river as âangryâ is to anthropomorphize it. Word of the Day.