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abrogation
At the New Yorker

always to be subject to critical examination and, if need be, abrogation

—p.36 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner
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praetorians

Burgess, Philby, Maclean, Blunt, and their praetorians

used metaphorically here I assume

—p.35 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner
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loggia

the loggia or façade that they designed

—p.31 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner
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modish

always modish governance of private patronage and mass-media trivialization

can guess the meaning but never seen it used like this before

—p.31 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner
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parlor-pink

It is parlor-pink talk in the approved nineteen-thirties style.

—p.30 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner
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