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- noun Plural form of
exornation .
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Complement supply the barrenness of your matter with the smoothness of your rhetorical exornations; but have a care that in striving to avoid affectation you do not run into improprieties of speech, or barbarisns.
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675
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