corollary

<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 23, 2023 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>corollary</strong> &#149; \KOR-uh-lair-ee\&nbsp; &#149; <em>noun</em><br /> <p><em>Corollary</em> is a formal word that usually refers to something that naturally follows or results from another thing. It can also be applied to a thing that incidentally or naturally accompanies or parallels something else. In logic, it refers to a proposition inferred immediately from a proved proposition.</p> <p>// Two <em>corollaries</em> of investment in parks and other green spaces are cleaner air and lower temperatures in neighboring communities. </p> <p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corollary">See the entry ></a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>“Our right to speak, much less to parent, should not be contingent on our ability to gain political control. The much better course for our democracy is to uphold a legal <em>corollary</em> to the golden rule: Defend the rights of others that you would like to exercise yourself. It doesn’t end the culture war. We’ll still clash over contentious issues. But maintaining a bedrock defense of civil liberties lowers the stakes.” —David French, <em>The New York Times</em>, 12 Mar. 2023</p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p>Not ones to rest on our <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laurels">laurels</a> here in the Word of the Day hothouse, today we are pleased to offer some <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flowery">flowery</a> prose on the history of the word <em>corollary</em>—not because it is rhetorically elegant (though it may be) but because its history is related to flowers. Indeed, the seed of <em>corollary</em> was planted initially by the Latin noun <em>corōlla</em> meaning “small wreath of flowers,” which later bloomed into another Latin noun, <em>corōllārium</em>, re