Laconization

Quick meaning: Laconization is a noun meaning (rare) The practice, or an instance, of making something more Spartan in character.

Meaning

(rare) The practice, or an instance, of making something more Spartan in character.

Example Sentences

If we compare this situation with the Dark Age, it seems appropriate to speak of a thorough cultural Laconization of Messenia.

The phrase, “The rule of one is best”, is a laconization of this verse in Homer "there is no good in having many rulers; let only one ruler be, one king".

The strange appearance of these words, and others like them, is due to a combination of laconization and a tendency in koinē to omit the omicron in the final syllables of words ending in -ιος (ios) or -ιος (ion).

Inadvertently, however, oligarchs had overlooked the one major flaw in their laconization policy which the radicals seized upon to whip them into tacit agreement on imperialism. To be specific, laconization in foreign affairs.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include laicisation, laicization, simplification, concretisation, concretization, lustration.

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