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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
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cant
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synonyms: argot, patois, demotic, enchorial ???
► definition
Definition:1. sanctimonious lecture or speech2. jargon used only in a specific profession
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SUB. Infuse vinegar,
To draw his volatile substance and his tincture:
And let the water in glass E be filter'd,
And put into the gripe's egg. Lute him well;
And leave him closed in balneo.
FACE [WITHIN]. I will, sir.
SUR. What a brave language here is! next to canting.
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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He threw out biting remarks on Lydgate’s tricks, worthy only of a quack, to get himself a factitious reputation with credulous people. That cant about cures was never got up by sound practitioners.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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“It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written,
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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“Cant not to me,” said Manfred, “but return and bring the Princess to her duty.”
Horace Walpole. The Castle of Otranto (1764)
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‘They are good children, no doubt, and don’t deserve the treatment you receive, for your bad conduct.’ ‘Don’t cant, Nelly,’ he said
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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I am not writing to flatter parental egotism, to echo cant, or prop up humbug; I am merely telling the truth.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer— you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant.
J.D. Salinger. Franny and Zooey, p.170 (1955)
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Be umble," says father, "and you'll do!" And really it ain't done bad!'
It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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she spoke: the blunt, irreverent cant of the pueblo that gives all dominicanos cultos nightmares on their 400-thread-count sheets
Junot Díaz. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)
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