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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The popular name of a speech given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA, as part of a ceremony to dedicate a portion of that battlefield as a cemetary for soldiers who died fighting there. See note below.
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- noun a three-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg (November 19, 1863)
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Do the varying texts now help us discover Lincoln's waxing oratorical power, perhaps strengthened by an emergent faith in the Divine (for example, in the phrase "under God" that appears in some versions), or are they better understood as signs of the indeterminacy of the event — the immense complexity and sometimes contradictory interplay of speech and context that we call the Gettysburg Address?
Claremont.org 2009
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His Gettysburg Address is a classic instance -- there is none better in history -- of using as few words as possible (261, to be precise) while conveying a powerful message.
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Original version of Gettysburg Address, which is excessively long and makes a lot of steamboat jokes that don't really land.
What's in the WikiLeaks Insurance File Alexandra Petri 2010
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When an earlier senator from Illinois gave what came to be known as the Gettysburg Address conservatives hated it.
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The Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address are my final examples; they appear in the ethical modality, and illustrate 'canonical reformation' within the sphere of constitutional politics.
Bartrum on The Constitutional Canon as Argumentative Metonymy Mary L. Dudziak 2009
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I agree with those who say that the Gettysburg Address is the greatest speech in American political history.
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The Gettysburg Address is a great speech, but it didn't do anything.
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And afterward, the President and Mrs. Kennedy gave me and my wife a tour of the living quarters, showing the Lincoln bedroom, the Gettysburg Address, which is up there, and so on.
Lincoln 1995
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The Gettysburg Address is the set of words actually spoken by Lincoln at Gettysburg.
Latest Articles 2010
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The Gettysburg Address is the opposite of an obscure document.
Latest Articles 2010
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