Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Describing a particular place or places.
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Examples
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A member of the Society of Antiquaries, Evans published locodescriptive as well as religious works; a friend of Bloomfield's at Worthing, of which town he published a description — Picture of Worthing.
Index of People 2009
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This locodescriptive passage is also an intertextual one, alluding to Wordsworth's previously mentioned, appositely titled lyrical ballad "Hart-Leap Well."
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a study of ethics in Wordsworth's poetry, as well as articles on the locodescriptive in Romantic poetry, and classical reception in eighteenth-century discursive prose.
About This Volume 2008
qms commented on the word locodescriptive
While "nut job" and "loon" are dismissive
Yet "mad" and "insane" echo fictive.
The language amazes
With terms for our crazes;
It's supple and locodescriptive.
June 23, 2017