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Definition of Jargonist
1. n. One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang.
Definition of Jargonist
1. Noun. One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jargonist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jargonist
Literary usage of Jargonist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Bibliographical Dictionary by Friedrich Adolf Ebert, Arthur Browne (1837)
"... A copy on vellum with 14 miniatures or the anti-jargonist, stranger's Galliot
du Pré, 1525. fol. Gothic language, improperly called Moor. 802 fr. ..."
2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1859)
"D. British Indian Monitor ; or the Anti- jargonist, Stranger's Guide, ...
The Anti-jargonist, or a short Introduc- Many works in the ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1831)
"We know not what opinions an ouran outang forms of a- man, but suppose that, like
this jargonist in regard to Bishop Heber, he judges of him by the ..."
4. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1827)
"The jargonist« would laugh, and declare that Dr. Gil- " The great body of the
population are of course the vulgar and illiterate, and their language ought ..."
5. Men Whom India Has Known: Biographies of Eminent Indian Characters by J. J. Higginbotham (1874)
""British Indian Monitor; or the Anti-jargonist, Stranger's Guide., Oriental
Linguist and other works on the Hindustani Language compressed," Edinb., ..."
6. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"His own writings at this period include 'The Anti-jargonist . . . being partly
an abridgment of the Oriental Linguist,' 8 vo, ..."
7. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"A very extraordinary writer certainly, and though somewhat, I must think, of a
jargonist, and too wordy and full of repetition, yet sagacious, ..."
8. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"Vet he was as little of a "jargonist" as Mill himself, a far closer and deeper
thinker, and the master ..."
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