Ìwà lẹ̀sìn.
Character as the ground of a person
Original
Ìwà lẹ̀sìn.
Glose littérale
- Ìwà character lẹ̀sìn is-the-worship.
Anglais idiomatique
"Character is worship."
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Ce que cela signifie
What a person is counts as their religious practice.
Employé quand
Owomoyela: "One's worship and prayers are only as efficacious as one's character is good"
Notes sur la traduction
Two words, and the compression is the force. Read alongside entry 3 it produces a tight pair: character is the god, and character is the worship of it. Ẹ̀sìn here is religion or worship, and is a different word from ẹṣin, horse, which differs in tone and in the vowel of the first syllable.