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lucubration [ˌluːkjʊˈbreɪʃən] n 1. laborious study, esp at night 2. (often plural) a solemn literary work lucubration 1. laborious work or study, especially when done late at night. See also: Work2. the work, as a book or treatise, produced or apparently produced this way. — lucubrator, n. 1. the practice of reading, writing, or studying at night, especially by artificial light; “burning the midnight oil.” See also: Learning
2. the art or practice of writing learnedly. — lucubrator, n. — lucubrate, v. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Immigration opponents like to talk (when not talking about violent immigrant criminals) about abstractions such as the reverence for the law; macroeconomic studies showing alleged overall negative effects on the national economy; or big-picture lucubration on the glories of a majority-white-European culture that is as doomed as our previous majority-English-German culture was in the 20th century. If I've quoted from my students' essays at length, it's because I believe that, together with their photographs, they speak more convincingly and eloquently about what Nan Goldin means today than any forced froth of lucubration on the topic I could muster myself. At one point I thought I might scream if I encountered the word discourse again, and some essays, such as Ronald Judy's, were an exasperating mix of jazzy, provocative exploration and close to impenetrable lucubration (a word I have long known and wanted to use in public, which Judy's thicketed phrasing inspires me to employ now for the very first time). |
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