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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.

cool word

—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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pelagian

Why, this . . . pelagian atmosphere of yours, you know

—p.553 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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epinastic

they stood there motionless as plants, Valentine in epinastic curve as the expression on his face unfolded to immediacy, and bent him down over the growth from the lower surfaces before him

oh cool!

—p.544 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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