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单词 penny-a-lineism
释义 ˌpenny-a-ˈlineism
[f. penny-a-line a. + -ism.]
The practice of writing in the inflated style of a penny-a-liner; an instance of such writing.
1854Punch 25 Nov. 208/2 That renowned traveller and Protestant champion [sc. the Editor of the Morning Advertiser] has accepted the appointment of Regius Professor of Penny-a-lineism.1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ix. 263 The whole genus of penny-a-line-isms and newspaper-reporter's flourishes give illustrations of this.
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