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- noun Plural form of
anecdoton . - noun Plural form of
anecdotum .
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Examples
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Fragmento del libro de Stefan Zweig, relatando una anecdota del regreso a París:
El regresso de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Fragmento del libro de Stefan Zweig, relatando una anecdota del regreso a París:
Archive 2008-09-14 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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But these anecdota points - it's raining broadband, Apple ate the world, and monopoly is the way- keep coming back in many venues, and need swift debunking.
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Of such _anecdota_ there are many collections; the earliest was probably L.A. Muratori's, in 1709.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The works of Martène (1654-1739) on ecclesiastical and monastic rites (1690 and 1700-2) and his collections of anecdota (1700, 1717, and 1724-33) are most voluminous; he was assisted by Durand.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Beyle's published work because of these _anecdota_, though they may, as actually before us, be taken as throwing some light on what is not so good in the _publicata_.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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Dr Suchier's _Denkmäler_ (Halle, 1883), which contains nearly 500 large pages of Provençal _anecdota_, about four-fifths is devotional matter of various kinds and in various forms, prose and verse.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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It is one of the results of the unlucky fancy of scholars for re-editing already accessible texts instead of devoting themselves to _anecdota_, that work of the first interest, like
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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Fascinating anecdota, but then you’re wildly atypical, even for the average user of WSJ.com.
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The historian Maffei (for our purpose his "anecdota of Cassiodorus" are to be noted, 1702), Vallarsi (St. Jerome, 1734-42, a great work, and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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