lucubration
Americannoun
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laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
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the result of such activity, as a learned speech or dissertation.
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Often lucubrations. any literary effort, especially of a pretentious or solemn nature.
noun
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laborious study, esp at night
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(often plural) a solemn literary work
Etymology
Origin of lucubration
1585–95; < Latin lūcubrātiōn- (stem of lūcubrātiō ) night-work. See lucubrate, -ion
Vocabulary lists containing lucubration
Example Sentences
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He spoke some French, perhaps also Italian; and if he had been at a University, which did not frequently happen, he might be able to recite a Latin lucubration.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
The "gentlemen of the police and the gendarmerie" shrugged their shoulders and paid no attention to this lucubration.
From The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
Some may see our lucubration as we saw it, and others may see nothing but a drunken dream or the nightmare of a distempered imagination.
From Canterbury Pieces by Samuel Butler
Mr. Bambridge made considerable alterations in his cherished lucubration; and when the advertisement appeared in print, it looked mean and filled but a paltry space.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
Love—War—a tempest—surely there's variety; Also a seasoning slight of lucubration; A bird's-eye view, too, of that wild, Society; A slight glance thrown on men of every station.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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