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Adoxography logo #21000 Adoxography is a term coined in the late 19th century, and means `fine writing on a trivial or base subject.` It was a form of rhetorical exercise `in which the legitimate methods of the encomium are applied to persons or objects in themselves obviously unworthy of praise, as being trivial, ugly, useless, ridiculous, dangerous or vicious”
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adoxography

adoxography logo #22641good writing on a trivial subject
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