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1 hour ago, Spicker said:

There is definitely a g in the middle of that word.
I see where you are coming from with evangelation, and that word fits with what I can read. My reservations are that it sounds like a made up word, and feels weird that Brandon would use it. Wouldn't a more correct/better term be evangelization? So is that to long to fit for that word? If evangelation is the real word (which it looks possible) then I start questioning Brandon's choice of vocabulary (which I never do). It's just a weird word, and as much as it could fit, I hope that it's not it.

Yeah, it's really weird due to the prominence of evangelize and its derivatives, which is a derivative of the word evangel like evangelation is. As far as I can tell, it is a word though I can't find it in an online dictionary (I can find it being used however and I would swear to hearing it during Mass).

Basically, it goes like this.

Evangel is the "good news" (aka the Gospel). An evangelist spreads the "good news". If they happen to convert others to the "good news", they evangelize them. The process in which an evangelist envangelizes someone is referred to as evangelization. Finally, the act of spreading the "good news" by an evangelist is called evangelation.

For an example, an Evangelation Center would be focused on spreading the "good news" while an Evangelization Center would be focused on converting people to the "good news".

You never really hear about it as it's (correctly) assumed to happen during evangelization. Furthermore, the "good news" doesn't really need spread in today's society, though Evangelization is a primary concern in the Church.

Finally, the "good news" can be thought of as spiritual sustenance (with how it's preached to save your soul and all that jazz) and from what we know, the Lightweavers provide spiritual sustenance. If you replace the "good news" with spiritual substance, evangelize and evangelization don't make sense (converting someone to spiritual sustenance doesn't exactly work) while a Lightweaver can be thought of as an evangelist and one of the  Lightweaver Order's purpones would be providing evangelation.

TL;DR: It's the right word, just really weird to read as it's never really typed out. I tried so hard to fit evangelization in instead due to this, but there's too much spacing between the "l" and "t" to work for the shown word.

P.S. Is evangel(-) even real anymore?

42 minutes ago, Edonidd said:

The Spy fits Shallan, but doesn't feel right.  Cruelty by her mother to try and kill her, and cruelty by her father the rest of her childhood.  While true, it just feels wrong.  Seeks completion?  Her fifth ideal to become a full KR?  Completion of her understanding of Uruthiru?  I just don't know.

The line is "broken by cruelty" and we know Shallan had Pattern before she used him to kill her mother, so she was likely broken before she killed her parents.

19 hours ago, Pagerunner said:

Oh, Brandon, you should know better.

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The second one is a real mystery; "vindication" and "completion" have both been proposed, but I think I see a "ng" in the middle of it, so who knows. But you get the gist.

I think the word is actually "evangelation", basically meaning the act of bringing/spreading good news, which is a pretty good fit for a Lightweaver. Evangel is a word by itself, meaning good news, and "-ation" is basically a suffix actioning the word it is attached too. 

The letter the word starts on seems to be curved like a "c" but I'm posivite there is a "v" before getting to the "ng" shape. Then the "ng" shape has a letter than what I see as an "l" and the "ng-l" takes place around the middle of the word before the "-ation" ending suffix. So it looks like "cv--ng-lation" to me. Evangelation would fit what I see.