Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… Speech Keywords Controversy Conversation Hypocrisy Rhetoric Nowadays, ‘cant’ is used in English to refer to professional jargons, but the word was more widely used in the long eighteenth-century to speak of different types of specialised … to some certain class or body of men. 3. A whining pretension to goodness, in formal and affected terms. 4. Barbarous jargon.’ Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language [1755], The sixth edition (London, 1785). 2 . For more …
Controversy | Conversation | Hypocrisy | Rhetoric
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