Word: scribendi
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...rather than noise, he might have done well to include the suffocating written word as well as the spoken one. For while it is true that . . . Most of us suffer in some degree From cacoethes loquendi, Yet some who deplore it at length seem to be Afflicted with ditto scribendi...
...This is my second attack of radio-induced "cacocthes scribendi"; Christmas Day the glorious music of Philco made me realize that there may be a Heaven after all! I'm reconciled if Saint Peter will allow Leopold Stokowski to direct the harps-with a few wind instruments added as a concession to modernity...
...should be compelled to pause in their pursuits to evade the buzzing and pestering of the musca [fly] Ambruster. . . . The Journal . . . will continue to devote little of its interest ot space in the future to unfounded charges, to insinuations without evidence, to the calling of names, or to cacoethes scribendi [itch for writing] on the part of any commercial assailant...
...nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit
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