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laconicism|ləˈkɒnɪsɪz(ə)m|
[f. laconic a. + -ism.]
= laconism 2 and 2 b.
1656Blount Glossogr., Laconicism, a short speech, containing much matter. 1694tr. Gracian's Courtier's Oracle Pref. A iija, This made the learned..Author affect a certain vigorous Laconicism in all his writings. 1736[see laconic 2]. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 374 Graceful without diffusion, and terse without laconicism. 1801Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 207 note, Highly as the laconicism of Buonaparte has been admired we [etc.]. 1865R. F. Burton (title) Wit and Wisdom from West Africa, a book of..Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconicisms. |