- Humor, English language, Semantics, Vocabulary
The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title The Cynic's Word Book, a name which the author had not the power to reject or happiness to approve.
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- Author
- Ambrose Bierce
- First published
- 9999
- Pages
- 228
- Publisher
- A. & C. Boni, Lin yü wen hua shi yeh yu xian gong si, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Editions
- 312
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, Portuguese, gre
- ISBN
- 9781306336628
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“ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.”
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist.
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