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Definition of Phrasemaker
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phrasemaker
Literary usage of Phrasemaker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Imaginary Obligations by Frank Moore Colby (1908)
"III THE phrasemaker AN admirer of M. Emile Faguet quotes a string of his phrases
to illustrate his epigrammatic style. Some of them are worth repeating as ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"He evidently was equally without the phrasemaker's and the bookmaker's ambition.
He seldom —and this will be the chief fault found by lovers of Nature with ..."
3. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton Jesse Hendrick, Woodrow Wilson (1922)
"He is not a leader, but rather a stubborn phrasemaker. And now events and the
aroused people seem to have brought the President to the necessary point of ..."
4. The Bookman (1896)
"The poem gives us autumn as it appeals to man the phrasemaker. One can see the
poet standing in front of the dying woods with a kind of epigrammatic camera. ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1886)
"... pleasures ;' and that, probably, will be assigned to some more famous and far
less wise causeur or phrasemaker, losing half its force in the transfer. ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1896)
"So much is this the case that when, no long time since, Lord Beaconsfield's
position as a phrasemaker was being publicly discussed, one of the younger ..."
7. Men & Letters by Herbert Woodfield Paul (1901)
"His bitterest enemy, Antony himself, did not suggest that it was all a delusion,
that Cicero was a mere phrasemaker, that the work was done by others, ..."
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