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newspaporial en · ADJ

Etymology

From newspaper + -ial.

Meanings

1. Characteristic of or pertaining to newspapers.
   • “[I have] been led to neglect its utterances by their lack of 'terseness,' 'crispness,' 'raciness,' and other 'newspaporial' virtues, though I could discern that Dewey himself was laboring with a big freight, towards the light. 2011, Mark J. Porrovecchio, F.C.S. Schiller and the Dawn of Pragmatism:
   • A vast proportion of them seem to have been christened in what 'Squire Western calls 'a spirit of contrary,' some few of which I will examine, premising at the same time that I feel neighter 'envy, hatred, malice, nor any uncharitableness' towards any of those who 'have lived long on the alms-basket of words,' having laboured myself not exactly in editorial harness, but merely by an occasional application of my shoulder to the 'newspaporial' wheel. 1832, Nathaniel Ames, Nautical Reminiscences, page 193:
   • But they had not joined the army to engage in the newspaporial business. 1866, Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, Iowa and the Rebellion, page 376:
   • He offered advice: "Recollect that for Newspaporial purposes, a broader treatment hits a broader mark; and keep bearing that way as much as you can with comfort. 1953, Leon Edel, Henry James: The conquest of London, 1870-1881, page 71:

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