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Word: floridation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1876-1876
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...lively imagination, having characters more resembling that of the Greeks than that of the Romans"; "from this source their language is frequently hyperbolical, and their pictures of objects, in any way interesting, highly colored"; so that the "Boston Style is a phrase proverbially used to denote a florid, pompous manner of writing"; "from this ardor," too, "springs a pronunciation unusually rapid," contracting "two short syllables into one," and pronouncing words "terminating with a liquid, particularly with l, m, or n, in such a manner as to leave out the sound of the vowel: thus, Sweden, Britain, garden, vessel, are extensively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHTY YEARS AGO. | 10/20/1876 | See Source »

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