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Definition of Laconism
1. Noun. Terseness of expression.
Definition of Laconism
1. n. A vigorous, brief manner of expression; laconic style.
Definition of Laconism
1. Noun. (uncountable figure of speech) Extreme brevity in expression. ¹
2. Noun. A very or notably brief expression. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Laconism
1. brevity of expression [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laconism
Literary usage of Laconism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Benguella to the Territory of Yacca: Description of a Journey Into by Roberto Ivens (1882)
"Opinion of the authors upon laconism in the description of toil and suffering—The
night of the 27th May—Apprehensions—Night phantoms—An unexpected ..."
2. The March of the Ten Thousand: Being a Translation of the Anabasis, Preceded by Xenophon, Henry Graham Dakyns (1901)
"To understand laconism, as I have elsewhere said, we ought to go to a somewhat
analogous period—the Italy of the Republics, when Venice with her relative ..."
3. The Works of Xenophon by Xenophon, Henry Graham Dakyns (1890)
"laconism}- But in what particular way this laconism was shown, or how and why
either laconism or friendship with Cyrus should have brought upon him a ..."
4. A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece by William Mure (1857)
"About this time he was banished " from Athens on account of laconism. ...
The laconism mentioned by Diogenes could not have consisted, ..."
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