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Qumran (sh) and evident (iou)


Qumran (sh)




Site on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947.

Excavations less than a mile from the sea have revealed the ruins of buildings believed by some scholars to have been occupied by Essenes, the probable authors of the scrolls. The buildings include a scriptorium, a potter's workshop, and a flour mill; water was supplied through an aqueduct. The Essenes are thought to have founded a monastic community at Qumran in the mid-2nd century BC. They temporarily abandoned the settlement after an earthquake and fire in 31 BC but later returned and lived there until Roman legions destroyed the community in AD 68.


evident (iou)



evident adjective & noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French evident or Latin evident-, -dens, from e- E- + pres. pple of videre see: see -ENT.]
A. adjective.
Obvious (to the eye or mind); plain or clear to see or understand; apparent. Formerly also (of objects), conspicuous. LME.
E. F. Benson The whole place, as could be seen at the most cursory glance, had been laid out with skill and care, but not less evident were the signs of subsequent neglect. N. Mailer It was evident to me that Yuriko was in love with him. I. Murdoch Stagdon's evident assumption that most decisions..were now taken by Miss Casement maddened Rainborough.
Of a sign, testimony, etc.: certain, indubitable. LME-M17.
b. noun. Something that serves as evidence; spec. in Scots Law, a document proving a person's title to something; usu. in pl., title-deeds. LME.
evidentness noun M16.