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Definition of Jargonists
1. jargonist [n] - See also: jargonist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jargonists
Literary usage of Jargonists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch of Its History from the Earliest by Walter Alexander Raleigh (1904)
"... and jargonists are mere' types, the products of a busy comic wit that has lost
its way. Miss Cecilia Beverley, older than Miss Evelina Anville and a ..."
2. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1900) by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... he has before him the long procession of ingenious jargonists whose jargon
has been in its turn hailed as a revelation and dismissed as an old song. ..."
3. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1895)
"Of the sect of jargonists," answered Mr. Gosport; "he has not an ambition beyond
paying a passing compliment, nor a word to make use of that he has not ..."
4. Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1883)
"Nothing in the language of those jargonists at whom Mr. Gosport laughed, nothing
in the language of Sir Sedley ..."
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