10 LIVRES EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «INKHORN TERM»
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A History of the English Bible as Literature
... which is insolent to their ears (as perchance they will take that phrase to be),
they forthwith make a jest at it and term it an inkhorn term. And though for my part
I use those words as little as any, yet I know no reason why I should not use them,
...
2
A History of the Bible as Literature: From antiquity to 1700
... for them and some such cutious fellows as they are, who if one chance to
detive any word from the Latin, which is insolent to their ears (as perchance they
will rake th« phrase to he), they forthwith make a jest at it and term it an inkhorn
term.
An inkhorn was a small portable vessel for ink, and an inkhorn term was a word
regarded as too bookish or learned. George Puttenham, writing in 1589 in The
Art of Poesie, identified a number of words (including irradiation and
depopulation) ...
4
Semantic Change in the Early Modern English Period: Latin ...
Crystal (2005: 292) suggests that the phrase “inkhorn term” probably derived
from the simple imagination that borrowed Latinate words were usually rather
lengthy and, hence, more ink was needed to write and print them. Not
surprisingly, the ...
5
The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory
POLYPTOTON is a rhetorical FIGURE involving multiple inflected forms of a
single word. inkhorn term A term deriving from older texts or Latin, as opposed to
everyday VERNACULAR speech. An inkhorn was a device for storing ink that
was ...
6
The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left
Inkpot term is first recorded in 1553, inkhorn term in 1543. Applied to language,
they refer to words which are so lengthy (because of their foreign origins) that to
write them down would use up a lot of ink. Accordingly, 'inkhorn terms' became
an ...
7
Edgar Allan Poe: Rhetoric and Style
An “inkhorn term” is an obscure, affectedly erudite borrowing from another
language, especially Latin or Greek. Lanham reminds us, quite rightly, to look up
soraismus in this connection as well (see below). Poe's prose abounds in
foreignisms, ...
8
Debates in English Teaching
An inkhorn term was a loan word, borrowed from another language, and in this
period vocabulary in the English language had expanded rapidly through the use
of loan words from Latin, Greek, French and Italian. Thomas Elyot (1531) argued
...
Jon Davison, Caroline Daly, John Moss, 2010
9
Roget's Thesaurus of Phrases
... death tax, estate tax initial public offering going public, IPO inkblot test
Holtzman technique, Rorschach test inkhorn term inkhorn word, lex- iphanic term,
pedantic term, scholarly term ink-jet printer bubble-jet printer, electronic printer, ...
10
The English is Coming!: How One Language is Sweeping the World
Shakespeare was certainly attentive to inkhorn-term fanatics around him. They
figured as voices in the larger dialogue then going on in English, about English.
Indeed, one can read all of Shakespeare's plays as dramatic, impersonated ...
Leslie Dunton-Downer, 2010
