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lucubration
[ loo-kyoo-brey-shuhn ]
noun
- laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
- the result of such activity, as a learned speech or dissertation.
- Often lucubrations. any literary effort, especially of a pretentious or solemn nature.
lucubration
/ ˌluːkjʊˈbreɪʃən /
noun
- laborious study, esp at night
- often plural a solemn literary work
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Example Sentences
Father Bougeant calls his lucubration a new system of philosophy; but this is not strictly true.
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It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration.
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The "gentlemen of the police and the gendarmerie" shrugged their shoulders and paid no attention to this lucubration.
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No amount of crime and bloodshed will atone for the stationary mechanism of this lucubration.
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I am only glad to see that Henry is himself ashamed of his lucubration.
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