Crossword-Solution: LACONISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Laconism | n. | A vigorous, brief manner of expression; laconic style. |
| Laconism | n. | An instance of laconic style or expression. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “LACONISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BRIEF expression | 1 answer |
| Apothegm | 12 answers |
| Aphorism | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with LACONISM (5)
This I shall endeavour to interpret, by developing to the best of my ability the laconism of the philosophical naturalist.
And she came and put him through this absurd catechism! She was like “Mangold’s Questions”: “What are the three diseases of wheat?”--“Which of the contemporary poets do you like best?” “Blight, Mildew, and Smut,” he replied, with the laconism of one who is absolutely certain of his own mind.
First he had not sufficient command of English to translate with the necessary laconism and assonance: secondly in his day British Philistinism was too rampant to permit a literal translation.
Upon legal matters, public ceremonies, fetes of different times, there was also silence at the best, the same laconism; and when we come to the affairs of Rome and of the League, it is a pleasure to see the author glide over that dangerous ice on his Jesuit skates! In due time critics condemned the work which, after so much applause, was recognised as a very wretched history, which had very industriously and very fraudulently answered the purpose for which it was written.
When they saw a sedate man of simple manners appear amongst them, they mistook his simplicity for haughtiness, his candor for rusticity, his laconism for stupidity, and rejected his benevolent cares, because, wishing to be useful, and not being a sycophant, he knew not how to flatter people he did not esteem.