Endwife
- noun
- A woman who has vowed to tend the stricken, help the hurt to live, and bury the dead.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘end’ (cessation) and wif (woman).
- Source
- The Deep
Orthogony
- noun
- The structure of actuality; orthogonal futures and pasts that fluoresce from the universe as it is, and from those into others, and others, always at right angles to the stream of time.
- Origin
- Back-formation from ‘orthogonal’.
- Source
- Great Work of Time