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Lincolnian
[ ling-koh-nee-uhn ]
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Origin of Lincolnian1
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Example Sentences
Lincoln in the World focuses on several distinct challenges that defined “Lincolnian foreign policy.”
That was a truly Lincolnian speech, because it took a very complicated claim and made it very articulate.
We decided that the remark was too Lincolnian to be mistaken and no man but he could have put the situation so quaintly.
"Lincolnian simplicity" was, in fact, an improvement on the code of his illustrious predecessor.
The Lincolnian "leetle questions" were beginning to be rankling darts.
The Lincolnian droop in his great, sad, mournful mouth accentuated the resemblance to the martyr president.
In more than one event the Lincolnian snappy and headlong manner was the fruit of study and deliberation.
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