Word | rococo |
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Definition | n. An elaborately baroque and ornamental style of art; transfiguratively, anything extravagantly or unnecessarily ornate. |
Sentence | Now assimilation consciousized is conciliation. A better term for it might be compatibilization, but that seems something too rococo. |
Source | The Original of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, p. 65 |
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