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Word: scribendi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 14, 1970 | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

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