Associations to the word «Johnsonese»
Verb
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Wiktionary
JOHNSONESE, proper noun. The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.