July 2010
1 tag
psychopomp
PRONUNCIATION:
(SY-ko-pomp)
MEANING:
noun: A guide of souls, one who escorts soul of a newly-deceased to the afterlife.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek psychopompos (conductor of souls), from psycho-, from psyche (breath, spirit, soul) + pompos (conductor, guide).
USAGE:
“Harold Bloom here presents himself as a mystagogue and a soothsayer, a psychopomp of our times,...
“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself”
