élucubration
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See also: elucubration
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Late Latin ēlūcubrātiō, from ēlūcubrō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]élucubration f (plural élucubrations)
- (derogatory) lucubration, elucubration (results of intense study with little value; used ironically)
- 1949, Simone de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième Sexe:
- Insultée, ridiculisée, elle dut s’enfermer dans ses domaines; et malgré un tempérament généreux, devenue à moitié folle, elle ne produisit plus que d’extravagantes élucubrations.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- ranting
Further reading
[edit]- “élucubration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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