[f. LACONIC a. + -ISM.] = LACONISM 2 and 2 b.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Laconicism, a short speech, containing much matter.

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1694.  trans. Gracian’s Courtier’s Oracle, Pref. A iija. This made the learned … Author affect a certain vigorous Laconicism in all his writings.

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1736.  [see LACONIC 2].

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1789.  Mrs. Piozzi, Journ. France, I. 374. Graceful without diffusion, and terse without laconicism.

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1801.  Hist. Europe, in Ann. Reg., 207, note. Highly as the laconicism of Buonaparte has been admired we [etc.].

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1865.  R. F. Burton (title), Wit and Wisdom from West Africa, a book of … Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconicisms.

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