"What German loan word means ""spirit of the age""?"
The Spirit of the Age arrive at a clear definition of what the age's "spirit" truly was. At best, as in the essays on Godwin, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and a few others, asserts Wardle, Hazlitt "was clearly working toward a definition of" the spirit of the age; but the subjects of the individual essays "remain 'Spirit"s" of the Age' rather than facets of the spirit of the age." With Hazlitt's work attracting increased interest and undergoing intense scrutiny around this time, however, critics' attitudes toward "The Spirit of the Age" as a unified composition began to undergo a radical shift. According to Roy Park, a central
Semantic loan The German verb "realisieren" originally only meant the former: to make something real. However, German later borrowed the other meaning of "to realise" from English, and today, according to Duden, also means "to become aware of something" (this meaning is still considered by many to be an Anglicism). The word "realisieren" itself already existed before the borrowing took place; the only thing borrowed was this second meaning. (Compare this with a calque, such as "antibody", from the German "Antikörper", where the word "antibody" did not exist in English before it was borrowed.) A similar example is the German semantic loan