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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Excessive care or needles effort; specifically, in rhetoric, a labored or bombastic style.

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

  • noun obsolete Excessive care or diligence.
  • noun (Rhet.), rare A bombastic or labored style.

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