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what a coincidence:
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:28 AM
the worthless word for the day is: objurgatory
[L. objurgatorius] /ob JURG uh tor ee/
expressing (a harsh or violent) rebuke
"[Mrs. Poyser] was remarkable for the facility with
which she could relapse from her official objurgatory
tone to one of fondness."
- George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859)
""You did not head for your pretended creek," he
added, after dealing in some objurgatory remarks that
we do not deem it necessary to record, "but steered
for that bluff, where every soul on board would have
been drowned, had we gone ashore."
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder (1841)
"I note and can to some extent sympathize with the
objurgatory tone of certain critics who feel that I
write too much because, quite wrongly, they believe
they ought to have read most of my books before
attempting to criticize a recently-published one."
- Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates (1989)
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted objurgatory Marianna 10/18/06 08:00 PM Re: objurgatory tsuwm 10/18/06 08:39 PM Re: objurgatory Aramis 10/19/06 06:00 PM
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