lipogrammatist love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who writes lipograms.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who makes a lipogram.

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  • noun One who makes a lipogram.

Etymologies

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Compare French lipogrammatiste.

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Examples

  • Tryphiodorus, the lipogrammatist, who wrote an Odyssey in twenty-four books without once using the letter A.

    History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

  • In the body of the temple, and before the very face of the deity, methought I saw the phantom of Tryphiodorus, the lipogrammatist, engaged in a ball with four-and-twenty persons, who pursued him by turns through all the intricacies and labyrinths of a country dance, without being able to overtake him.

    Essays and Tales Joseph Addison 1695

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