Strunkian

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Strunk +‎ -ian

Adjective[edit]

Strunkian (comparative more Strunkian, superlative most Strunkian)

  1. Of or relating to William Strunk, Jr. or his Elements of Style (1920), a famous prescriptive writing-style guide.
    • 2020, Victoria Rosner, Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life, page 62:
      However, the above passage could have been written more efficiently — if Strunkian concision, using the fewest words possible, is understood as the measure of verbal efficiency.
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