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Webster 1913 Edition


Lipogram

Lip′o-gram

(lĭp′ō̍-grăm; 277)
,
Noun.
[Gr.
λείπειν
,
λιπεῖν
, to leave, omit +
-gram
.]
A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; – as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on.

Webster 1828 Edition


Lipogram

LIP'OGRAM

,
Noun.
[Gr. to leave, and a letter.]
A writing in which a single letter is wholly omitted.

Definition 2024


lipogram

lipogram

English

Noun

lipogram (plural lipograms)

  1. (literature) A word, or writing which does not use a particular symbol or symbols.
    "transubstantiationalists" is a particularly long lipogram, not using the letter "e"

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