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stolid

Mr. Inononu stood a stolid five feet and four inches from the ground

—p.648 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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limicolous

The critic approached, moving with the steps of one in a familiar medium, disdaining claims of time past and future, both contained in this limicolous present.

—p.626 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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contravallation

The critic straightened up, unprepared for this sally, without time to recover his own walls, he withdrew instantly behind contravallations of mistrust.

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—p.602 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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expiate

And that it isn’t just expiation, but . . . that’s why it is crucial, because this is the only way we can know ourselves to be real, is this moral action, you understand don’t you, the only way to know others are real

—p.591 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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hebetude

the pattern was so conservative, and the material so fine, that this seemed rather a mark of luxuriance than some deliberate hebetude on the part of the giver

—p.564 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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