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This etymological aspect is included in the succinct definition at Luciferous Logolepsy.
Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral 2009
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Let us comfort ourselves by thinking that Louis Quatorze in all his glory held his revels in the dark, and bless Mr. Price and other Luciferous benefactors of mankind, for banishing the abominable mutton of our youth.
The Virginians 2006
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"Luciferous Warniferous, the world's great private investigator."
Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore Pauline Lester
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Let us comfort ourselves by thinking that Louis Quatorze in all his glory held his revels in the dark, and bless Mr. Price and other Luciferous benefactors of mankind, for banishing the abominable mutton of our youth.
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Experiment is in it self not Ignoble, and Luciferous enough (as shewing a new way to produce a Volatile Salt contrary to Acid Salts from Bodies that otherwise are Observ'd to yield no such Liquor, but either only, or chiefly, Acid ones,) I shall, to satisfie you, acquaint you before any of my other Friends with the way I now use
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But when, unrestrained and unbridled, it rushes headlong towards its destination, then it becomes Luciferous, though not bearing light but rather pitch darkness.
Paideia 2009
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Let us comfort ourselves by thinking that Louis Quatorze in all his glory held his revels in the dark, and bless Mr. Price and other Luciferous benefactors of mankind for abolishing the abominable mutton of our youth. "
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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