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Last word

noun

The final statement in a verbal argument.

An authoritative statement.

Elegance by virtue of being fashionable. Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank.

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... folly. We have built up a culture, a civilization, and even a religious life, surpassing in many respects that of any previous age, and we have been content to rest it all upon a foundation of sand. Such a state of society cannot endure so long as the last word in human affairs is brute force. Sooner or later it was bound to crumble. At the close of this war we shall be faced with a stupendous task of reconstruction. In some ways it will be rendered supremely ...

— The Reconciliation of Races and Religions • Thomas Kelly Cheyne

... Once let us develop a weak spot, and they'll aim for that every rush. There's Frank calling to me again. Five minutes more, and we'll be at it, hammer and tongs," and Lanky hurried away to where the captain stood, with the very last word ...

— The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron • Graham B. Forbes

... chiefly to be sure the type is correctly set, is examined, and the errors in it are rectified. After this it is again corrected and is cut up into lengths suitable for a page. Following this the page proof is printed, care being taken that the last word at the bottom of one page joins on to the top word of the next. It is very easy to omit a word and thus mar the sense. It is also a rule of most publishing houses that the top line of each page shall be a full line, and in consequence it is often ...

— Paul and the Printing Press • Sara Ware Bassett

... is time we had done with the objection, "such cruelties are INCREDIBLE." If the objector still reiterates it, he shall have the last word ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... his baby eyebrows at his father, who seemed very tall and very terrible. But his bare foot touched the dead snake and he took comfort. "I was comin'," he said. "I WASN'T los'. I bringed my snake and my hawn-toe. An' dey—WASN'T—any—woluffs!" The last word came muffled, buried in his ...

— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower

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