The Devil's Dictionary: Usage

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
URBANITY
UXORIOUSNESS

USAGE

-n.

The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.

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