单词 | anecdote collection |
释义 | > as lemmasanecdote collection C1. General use as a modifier, as in anecdote book, anecdote collection, etc.; also with participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which anecdote expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in anecdote-loving, anecdote lover, etc. ΚΠ 1714 tr. Anc. & Mod. Libr. 46 This is an Anecdote Piece [Fr. c'est ici une Pièce Anecdote], of which Historians have had no manner of knowledge. 1787 Public Advertiser 18 Apr. He told me the following story... I find a minute of it in my anecdote-book. 1836 Edinb. Rev. July 364 By no means so explanatory as his anecdote-loving master could desire. 1881 W. D. Adams Treasury Mod. Anecd. Introd. 5 This is not the kind of thing which the genuine anecdote lover at all cares about. 1883 Nation (N.Y.) 6 Dec. 472/3 The dialogue is hardly more connected, or original, or artistic than the anecdote column of a country weekly. 1910 Amer. Anthropologist 12 655/1 Facetious and jesting charms and incantations..from the facetiæ, jest-books, preceptoria, anecdote-collections, sermon-books, etc., of the 16th and 17th centuries and later. 1974 R. MacGillivray Restoration Historians & Eng. Civil War i. 8 A further disadvantage derived from nearness to the war was distortion as a result of anecdote-telling. 2006 F. Portman King Dork 147 Mr. Teone's afterschool Gifted and Talented program might have been of some use as an anecdote factory, but that was about it, and I felt I really didn't need the anecdotes at that price. < as lemmas |
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