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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Oracularness; mysterious dogmatism.

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  • noun Oracular speech or behaviour.

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  • These essays don't feel as incisive as some of Steiner's other works, ones where he has more space to expand his ideas, but that's not entirely a bad thing -- I much prefer this book to such books as Grammars of Creation, where Steiner himself lights up some tenebrous incense of oracularity.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • These essays don't feel as incisive as some of Steiner's other works, ones where he has more space to expand his ideas, but that's not entirely a bad thing -- I much prefer this book to such books as Grammars of Creation, where Steiner himself lights up some tenebrous incense of oracularity.

    George Steiner at The New Yorker 2009

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