The Devil's Dictionary: Dictionary

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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-n.

A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

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