noun
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economy of expression
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a terse saying
Etymology
Origin of laconism
1560–70; < Greek lakōnismós, noun answering to lakōnízein to favor or imitate the Spartans. See laconic, -ism
Vocabulary lists containing laconism
Example Sentences
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The only time he abandoned his Trappist laconism was when Alba went to visit him in his tunnel of books.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
The latter read it without betraying the slightest emotion, or even surprise; then, with a laconism that was wholly Laced�monian, he said: "Place the light."
From The Companions of Jehu by Dumas père, Alexandre
She answered other questions with equal firmness and laconism.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
This I shall endeavour to interpret, by developing to the best of my ability the laconism of the philosophical naturalist.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
The coldness is most often simply the apparent coldness of restraint; the baldness, the laconism of a spirit that abhorred loose, ungainly manners of speech.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul
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