Associations to the word «Deodand»

Wiktionary

DEODAND, noun. (obsolete) (legal) An object forfeited by the state (and supposedly given to God) because it had caused the death of a person

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King