Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the writing of lipograms; also, of the nature of a lipogram.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Omitting a letter; composed of words not having a certain letter or letters.
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- adjective Omitting a
letter ; composed of words not having a certain letter or letters.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The letter ‘e’ is the missing letter in the lipogrammatic passage above.
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From the postscript to Georges Perec's A Void Gilbert Adair's translation of Perec's 1969 novel La Disparition--Adair's only disqualification as translator is that his name has an 'e' in it, the lipogrammatic book which Perec famously constrained himself to write without using the letter 'e':
Downright mawk Jenny Davidson 2006
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The Greeks composed lipogrammatic works; works in which one letter of the alphabet is omitted.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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This Odyssey was an imitation of the lipogrammatic Iliad of Nestor.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
bilby commented on the word lipogrammatic
Adjective used to describe a work of writing that deliberately excludes particular letters.
'Gadsby', a novel written without the letter 'e', is a noted example.
December 19, 2007