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Definition of Laconisms
1. laconism [n] - See also: laconism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laconisms
Literary usage of Laconisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1889)
"Jesus in Modern Life. By ALGERNON SYDNEY LOGAN. Cloth, $1.25. laconisms. THE WISDOM
OF MANY IN THE WORDS OF ONE. By JMP О г is, DD, LL. ..."
2. Who's who in America by Albert Nelson Marquis (1899)
"Author: Nicodemus With Jesus; Light and Lite for a Dead World; The Southern Pen
and Pulpit; Interdenominational Literature; The Gospel of Honesty; laconisms ..."
3. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"The " laconisms " of the Lacedaemonians evidently partook of the proverbial
style : they were, no doubt, often proverbs themselves. The very instances which ..."
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