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難しいけど面白い記事でした。アメリカってオカルト土壌がありますよね。
medium
意味 ＜情報伝達などの＞ 媒体, 媒介 (物), メディア; 手段, 方法 ＜of, for＞
Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, television: whatever the medium, there’s a medium.
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つい最近調べたのに…！と非常に悔しかった。スペルがmediaと違うだけで、こんなに思い至らないとは…くやしいー！
orthodoxy
意味 正統とされる考え, 通説, 正説; （宗教の） 正統派的信仰 [慣行].
Because Spiritualism so strongly rejected hierarchy and orthodoxy, it is difficult to say exactly when or how it started.
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efflorescence
意味 (かたく) 開花 (期); 全盛, 最高潮.
Plenty of scholars regard it as part of the larger religious efflorescence that began in the early nineteenth century in the area of New York State that became known as the Burned-Over District, which gave rise to the Second Great Awakening.
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phenomenon
意味 現象, 事象
In the fall of 1849, four hundred people gathered at Corinthian Hall, in nearby Rochester, where the Foxes demonstrated what they had advertised as “WONDERFUL PHENOMENA” for a paying audience—the first of many during the next forty years.
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preceding
意味 前の
But it was worse in the preceding centuries; for some time, the child mortality rate had been falling.
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anguish
意味 [U] (かたい書) （特に精神的な） 激しい苦痛, 苦悩; 深い悲しみ (grief)
What mattered more was that the average family size was shrinking, too, at the same time that modern ideas of childhood were taking hold—trends that combined to make the loss of any child seem that much more anguishing.
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the fold
意味 [the ～]（信仰· 主義· 価値観などを共有する） 集団, 帰属集団 (家族· 故郷· 会社など).
But it wasn’t only the death of children that brought people to Spiritualism, or kept them in the fold.
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séance
意味 降霊会 (霊媒を介して死者の霊と交信をする会).
Mary Todd Lincoln, who lost three of her four children, visited with mediums in Georgetown before hosting her own séances in the Red Room of the White House.
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confirmation
意味 確認, 確証
Mourning portraits—paintings of the recently dead—had long been popular, but spirit photographs offered something more: not just the memorialization of lost loved ones but confirmation of life after death.
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deceased
意味 亡くなった
Mumler alone took dozens of spirit photographs, in which deceased friends or relatives appeared behind or beside their living loved ones.
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guess
意味 推測
The telegraph, for instance, offered access to voices from the beyond; how far beyond was anyone’s guess.
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