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Definition of Inkhorn
1. n. A small bottle of horn or other material formerly used for holding ink; an inkstand; a portable case for writing materials.
2. a. Learned; pedantic; affected.
Definition of Inkhorn
1. Noun. (archaic) A small portable container, often made of horn, used to carry ink. ¹
2. Noun. (context: used attributively pejorative of vocabulary) Pedantic, obscurely scholarly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inkhorn
1. a small container for ink [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inkhorn
Literary usage of Inkhorn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"But his third Book, " Of Elocution," * "inkhorn announces from the first an
interest in the matter i terms. very different from the jejune ..."
2. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1882)
"It was accompanied with a good Leather inkhorn, a stick of Sealing Wax, and 200.
Wafers in a little Box. Gave her little Granddaughter, Mary Cotton, ..."
3. The People's Christ: A Volume of Sermons and Other Addresses and Papers by Louis Albert Banks (1891)
"What particular kind of weapons the other five had, we do not know; but this
reporter who was clothed in linen, and carried an inkhorn at his side, ..."
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