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DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.

Ambrose Bierce (June 24, 1842—1914), American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
in The Devil’s Dictionary

 

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