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Pivotal point
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crux
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Crux ( Latin for "cross", "gallow", or "t-shape") is a term applied by palaeographers , textual critics , bibliographers , and literary scholars to a point of significant corruption in a literary text. More serious than a simple slip of the pen or typographical ...
Usage examples of crux.
He wants a visible image to fix his thought, a scarabee or a crux ansata, or the modern symbols which are to our own time what these were to the ancient Egyptians.
Master Sean had prowled round the room with his eyes half closed, his golden crux ansata in his right hand, probing everywhere.
Fastened to the wall above it was an ancient ankh or crux ansata, the Egyptian cross with looped top, symbolizing procreation and life.
Their key symbol was the looped cross of ancient Egypt, the crux ansata -- the sign of life.
On the other the winged serpent, the uraeus, bearing the looped cross, the crux ansata, the symbol of life.
Turning away from the windows, Blake noticed that the cobwebbed cross above the altar was not of the ordinary kind, but resembled the primordial ankh or crux ansata of shadowy Egypt.
Hence the Ank Cross or Crux Ansata of Egypt, scepter of the Lord of the Dead that never die.
The Crux Ansata was the particular emblem of Osiris, and his sceptre ended with that figure.
Crux Ansata, a Tau cross with a circle over it, means life-giving, 290-u.
I wore a small gold badge under my lapela badge in the shape of the crux ansata, the looped Egyptian cross of natural, holy life.
The sedan had chased him all the way from Las Cruces to the Caballo foothills.
He also headed in the general direction of Las Cruces, then turned south on I-10 toward El Paso.
The town of Las Cruces had traffic, but not all that much at the dinner hour.
They rented the carsall four groupsin Las Cruces, New Mexico, and probably drove independently to their objectives.
Las Cruces, New Mexico, and probably drove independently to their objectives.