Amulet meaning

Noun: amulet

Pronunciation: (am-yu-lut)

Amulet meaning: A trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease.

Synonyms: talisman

Quotations: Martin H. Fischer – Some day when you have time, look into the business of prayer, amulets, baths and poultices, and discover for yourself how much valuable therapy the profession has cast on the dump.

Carly Pope – I kind of see myself as a cartoon that’s on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don’t feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.

Alice Hoffman – We can offer women what they want most of all, cures for the most common ailments of this world. When children are ailing or babies refuse to be born, when men are unfaithful, when the sky is empty of rain, when the amulets buried beneath holy wall upon instructions of the minim offer not solace and all entreaties to the priests for guidance fail, when the rituals they offer bring no comfort and no consolation, they come to us.

Elizabeth Lesser – Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regime or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart. Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego’s will to prevail. To listen to your soul is to stop fighting with life–to stop fighting when things fall apart; when they don’t go our away, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty and to wait.

Kate Furnivall – She closed the door and stamped her feet on the icy ground, smiling as she drew in a deep breath of Russian air and felt her heart race. There was a future ahead, one that she and Chang An Lo would carve together. It was a risk, but life itself was a risk. That much she’d have learnt from Russia, that much she’d have learnt from Jens. With a farewell wave to Alexei and a final touch of the Chinese amulet around her neck to tempt the protection of Chang An Lo’s gods one last time, she looped her bag onto her shoulder and headed for the gateway.

Sample sentences:

1. To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
2. When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priest craft. Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes.
3. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.
4. Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.
5. He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he’d taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.
6. That is the amulet which preserves individuals and sometimes populations not from danger, but from the fear of danger.
7. He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.
8. She covered the amulet with her hand. I found it in my jewellery box and liked the look of it.
9. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.
10. I want to describe, I want to distribute mementos, amulets, I want to break out my wallet and pass around snapshots, I want to follow my nose.