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- noun United States writer (born in 1934)
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Not 2010 Madonna. greatest women, 75 greatest women, joan didion greatest women, joan didion photo joan didion
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Anonymous said ... anonymous, that's not what happens to me. maybe it is for you, but which of us speaks for the majority of writers would be impossible to tell, and maybe neither of us does. maybe all the others are out there transcribing their dreams, and you, me and joan didion are the outliers. (out lyers?). every book of mine so far has started with a theme like the one I ascribed to O.N. It's just that my themes are not the main stream moralizing I see in a lot of didact-heavy books, like "strong women rock!" or "It's okay to be yourself!"
"Crap, here comes Teacher!" Roger Sutton 2007
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It doth not withdraw the clerk from the jurif - didion of bis ordinary, nor difpenfe with the oath agaioft fimony, to which every prefenteee was previoufly fufajed.
Ecclesiastical Law 1797
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Though the real cftate is not within the jurif - didion of this Court, it may afford an argument in favour of the revocation that it was wholly devifed away.
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THIS poem being writ in the manner of Spenfer, the obfolete words, and a fuiiplicity of didion in fome of the lines, which borders on the ludicrous, were uecefTary, to make the imitation more perfed.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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It is the fentiment that fwells and fills out the didion, which rifes with it, and forms it - felf about it: for in the fame degree that a thought is
The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson 1790
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Though the didion of this performance is in general too fplendid for the title it alTumcs, and too much ornamented for epiilolary writing, yet on the whole, it polTeircs merit, and is entitled to re - commendation for its virtuous and Hioral leiiJcncy.
The Monthly Review 1786
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** Whoever has been reading this unnatural filth, let him turn for a mo - ment to a Speftator of Addifon, and obfef ve the philanthropy of that claf - fical writer; I may add, the fuperiour purity of his didion and his wit.
The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer 1785
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At that time feveral Englifli noblemen and perfons of diftinftion obtained a charter from the crown, invefting them with the property and jurif - didion of this country; and they accordingly parcelled out the lands to fuch as were in - clined to emigrate to the new fetllement, and to fubmit to a fyftem of laws which the im - mortal Locke compofed for that purpofe.
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