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- noun The writing style of James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish lawyer and writer, best known for his
biography of Samuel Johnson.
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Examples
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Never mind the taunt of Boswellism: the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its own skirts.
Representative Men 2006
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Never mind the taunt of Boswellism: the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its own skirts.
Uses of Great Men 1914
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Yet do not imagine that I will hurt you in this unseen domain of yours by any Boswellism.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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Never mind the taunt of Boswellism: the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its own skirts.
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Never mind the taunt of Boswellism: the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its own skirts.
Representative Men Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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Yet do not imagine that I will hurt you in this unseen domain of yours by any Boswellism.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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a rooted aversion to anything like Boswellism I might here depict a character such as one seldom meets with in these days.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various
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