engagé
/ɛnɡˈeɪdʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone serving under a contract of engagement.
adj
Passionately committed to a cause.
Example Sentences
- "In 1705, "un nommé Laurain" having been up the Missouri River, there met native groups who had knowledge of the Spaniards, and in 1706 two Canadiens had spent two years status, like François-Marie Perrot, who began as a lowly engagé for the Jesuits and over the years became an influential explorer deeply involved in government plans."
- "For the seasonal engagé – the “porkeater” going to Grand Portage – the engagement provided an extra source of income to supplement a primary occupation elsewhere."
- "A moment later he seemed to form a resolution, and turned to his engagé, who was standing a few paces from him."
- "Fortunately, most scholars, engagé or not, are willing to deal with differing ponts of view."
- "Moreover, when Ulibarrí's subsequent works are published by Chicano presses (Justa, The Bilingual Press, Arte Público), he joins the brother-and sisterhood of Chicano literati—the engagé as well as those who would write to delect and entertain rather than to inspire revolutions."
- "Rejecting both the high art-as-tradition creed of the self-styled Humanists led by T.S. Eliot and the Soviet example of literary realism advocated by New Masses editor and author Michael Gold, Farrell called for an art both engagé and free."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: engagé