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Definition of Paragrams
1. paragram [n] - See also: paragram
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paragrams
Literary usage of Paragrams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a Compendium of Out by Cassell & Co, Cassell (London) (1896)
"Punning is only effective when impromptu, and can hardly be classed among the
social round of word puzzles; but, on the other hand, paragrams may be ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"... puns and paragrams; and, after dismissing all these kinds of false wit,2 he
shows his unacademic readers in what true wit consists. ..."
3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1840)
"... and somewhat like to those jests which are grounded upon the deceiving of a
man's expectation. And paragrams, that is, allusions of words, are graceful, ..."
4. Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises by William Cushing (1885)
"I hired one of the panes of glass from tny friend, and stuck up the following
advertisement with wafers: — " Epigrams, anagram*, paragrams, ..."
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