Word: outworn
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...beyond the mastery of the principles of correct and clear expression, the further purpose of developing individuality. A writer's work has value as his work in so far as the style is special to his thought. If his ideas are conventional and derived, his style will draw upon outworn terms and "literary slang." His problem is to know his own meaning exactly and to express it in his own personal way. To think independently and to phrase freshly, because specifically, is his success. Such seem to be the conclusions suggested significantly by these articles...
...sake of persons who may have been inconvenienced by an outworn pleasantry it seems proper to state that the card generally distributed by mail yesterday morning to the effect that President and Mrs. Eliot would receive their friends Wednesday evening instead of on Class Day is not genuine...