Definitions
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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