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imprecate

There were poems and prayers and imprecations.

—p.116 April: The Prodigal (107) by China Miéville
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chiliastic

This was an ad hoc realisation of the traditional chiliastic yearning for equal shares of the land for all who worked it – ‘black repartition’, as this redistribution was known – and the freedoms that should ensue.

—p.116 April: The Prodigal (107) by China Miéville
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prolix

the careful prolixity of autodidacts

—p.116 April: The Prodigal (107) by China Miéville
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tendentious

a combination of misunderstanding of the Pravda edits and rather tendentious retellings

—p.99 March: 'In So Far As' (66) by China Miéville
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splenetic

They also mitigated Lenin’s typically splenetic denunciation of various enemies, including among liberals, the right, and non-Bolshevik socialists

on Pravda's editors

—p.99 March: 'In So Far As' (66) by China Miéville
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