Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WIT'TI-CISM
WIT'TI-CISM, n. [from wit.]
A sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; a low kind of wit. He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse. – Addison.
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