Chutzpa with a Capital CHUTZ

From today's Writer's Almanac:

It's the birthday of humorist Leo Rosten, born in Lodz, Poland (1908). His masterpiece was The Joys of Yiddish (1968), an unofficial lexicon of Yiddish words, phrases, and rhetorical devices, illustrated with proverbs, quotes, and jokes.

It was Rosten who first set down in print the famous definition of chutzpa as, "That quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan."

My favorite word in that definition is "enshrined."