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Lucubration

noun
1.
A solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation.
2.
Laborious cogitation.





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"Lucubration" Quotes from Famous Books



... brief "retrospective reviews" of these as though they were new discoveries. In other cases, where the personal history of a well-known book seems worth detaching from our critical estimate of it, that shall be the subject of my lucubration. Perhaps it may not be an unwelcome novelty to apply to old books the test we so familiarly apply to new ones. They will bear it well, for in their case there is no temptation to introduce any element of prejudice. Mr. ...
— Gossip in a Library • Edmund Gosse


Words linked to "Lucubration" :   lucubrate, cogitation, literary composition, study, literary work


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