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lucubration

[ loo-kyoo-brey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
  2. the result of such activity, as a learned speech or dissertation.
  3. Often lucubrations. any literary effort, especially of a pretentious or solemn nature.


lucubration

/ ˌːʊˈɪʃə /

noun

  1. laborious study, esp at night
  2. often plural a solemn literary work
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of lucubration1

1585–95; < Latin ūܲپō- (stem of ūܲپō ) night-work. See lucubrate, -ion
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This brings me back to my own miserable lucubration.

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There are entire syllabuses full of their lacklustre texts - galleries hung with their bland daubs, concert halls resounding with their duff notes, and of course, radio stations broadcasting their tepid lucubrations.

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And there isn’t a market for these creative writing graduates’ in most cases mediocre lucubrations.

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Abuse may lead the militant Impressionist to an impasse of assertive agnosticism as pedantic in its way as the lucubrations of the most literary pedant in paint.

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It is well known that tea is frequently resorted to by literary men to keep them awake during their lucubrations.

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