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Deseret (Book of Mormon)

Deseret ( Deseret: ????????????????????????????) is a term derived from the Book of Mormon, a scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and other Latter Day Saint groups. According to the Book of Mormon, "deseret" meant " honeybee" in the language of the Jaredites, a group believed by Mormons to have been led to the Americas during the time of the construction of the Tower of Babel (see ). LDS scholar Hugh Nibley (extending the work of Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner) suggested an etymology by associating the word "Deseret" with the ancient Egyptian dsrt, a term referring to the "bee crown" of the Lower Kingdom.

Deseret

Deseret may refer to:

  • Deseret News, daily newspaper in Utah
  • Deseret (Book of Mormon), a term used in the Book of Mormon meaning "honeybee"
  • State of Deseret, a provisional state of the United States, proposed in 1849 by Mormon settlers in Salt Lake City
  • Utah Territory or Territory of Deseret
  • The Deseret Test Center, a U.S. Army-operated project designed to test chemical and biological weapons during the 1960s.
  • Deseret, California, a former Mormon farming community
  • Deseret, Utah, an unincorporated community
    • Fort Deseret, a fortification erected by Mormon settlers during the Utah Black Hawk War
  • Deseret Ranches, 300,000-acre Mormon cattle ranch in central Florida.
  • Deseret alphabet, a phonetic alphabet developed in the mid-19th century in Utah Territory to assist foreign-speaking immigrants in learning English
  • Deseret (Unicode block), a block of Deseret characters in Unicode
  • University of Deseret or University of Utah
  • Deseret, a fictional state in " The Folk of the Fringe" by Orson Scott Card
  • Deseret, a fictional breakaway state in Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Series
Deseret (Unicode block)

Deseret is a Unicode block containing characters in the Deseret alphabet, which were invented by the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to write English. The Deseret block was derived from an earlier private use encoding in the ConScript Unicode Registry, like the Shavian and Phaistos Disc encodings. The block was added in version 3.1 of the Unicode Standard; the letters Oi and Ew, both uppercase and lowercase, were added in version 4.0.

Usage examples of "deseret".

When she had been hired, albeit on a trial basis due to a lack of solid experience, by the Deseret, she had feared all her interviews would be stodgy old church men.

Randy, saw it at the Deseret Industries and decided I just had to have it.

I was saying, in the real world outside New Deseret, I am a wealthy woman.

Demands for autonomy and independence for the so-called State of Deseret have been and will continue to be rejected out of hand.

The State of Deseret was an expanse of land comprised of nearly one sixth of the United States.

White House Deseret was a phrase, and a concept, deeply satisfying to many men in the Collier administration.

White House Deseret had suggested a protectorate status for the eastern seaboard, but the Old South preferred to confederate on its own.

Holo Corporation of America, tied to Loring Aircraft, engaged to Entertainment Talent Associates, in bed with Deseret Pacific Industries, romantically linked to Latter-Day Shale.

West of the Deseret Sea, he could see little sign of settlement, though brushfires indicated the locations of endo tribes, which set them to drive game into convenient hunting grounds.

The failure of the Deseret News, the Church organ, and the only paper then published in the Territory, to notice the massacre until several months afterward, and then only to deny that Mormons were engaged in it.

Ten hours later it wrapped itself around Deseret Peak in the Stansbury Mountains of Utah and was totally destroyed.

For the Mormon pioneers the most important features of the topography were the natural barriers that Brigham Young felt would protect their nascent state of Deseret from the influence of belligerent, unholy gentiles.

A folded copy of the Deseret News was visible on the floor of the passenger side of the spacious car.

The driver of the Cadillac was most certainly LDS, and given that the person had been reading the Deseret News, the Mormon-owned newspaper from Salt Lake City, he was probably from Salt Lake as well.

For the Church, having reliable political power and social clout is the Deseret version of the Israeli Air Force.