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palincestuous en · ADJ

Etymology

Blend of palimpsest + incestuous, spelled to emphasise incestuous.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, rare) Alternative form of palimpsestuous.
   alt of palimpsestuous
   • This is the palincestuous technique at its most productive, where the prose is expansive rather than reductive, always working to enliven the sensibility of the reader. 2017 December 8, Ben Masters, Novel Style: Ethics and Excess in English Fiction since the 1960s, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57:
   • This is the wordplayer's ad hoc approach: recycle the existent. It makes Tournier, like Joyce, a 'palincestuous' writer. 2008 February 21, W. D. Redfern, French Laughter: Literary Humour from Diderot to Tournier, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
   • Palincestuous relationships : a temporal reading of Michel Tournier's Le Médianoche amoureux 1987, Current Research in French Studies at Universities and University Colleges in the United Kingdom:

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