📚 noun • entry_id 42720
laconism
Meanings (ES + gloss)
laconismo • pauciloquio
Extreme brevity in expression.
[…] Joe Montana is finally calling it quits. A retirement party in San Francisco and a press conference in Kansas City, Missouri, are planned for this week, and his agents are shop…
“Well, where have you been?” he said to her with offhand laconism.
laconismo
A very or notably brief expression.
Perhaps the most striking difference between [A Tale of Two Cities] and his other novels may seem to lie in the all but entire absence from it of any humour or attempt at humour; f…
The hand of PROVIDENCE writes often by abbreviatures, hieroglyphicks or short characters, which, like the Laconism on the wall, are not to be made out but by a hint or key from tha…
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