Tuesday 13 October 2015

Aforeaforementioned

Aforeaforementioned: adjective. Referring to something, which has already been mentioned in a sentence or conversation twice before and hence the word 'aforementioned' isn't satisfactory for explaining the relevancy and recurring nature of the word in the conversation. The word was first introduced by William Shakespeare in one of his many lost plays, this one specifically from the historical tragedy 'Hammurabi and Code', where the tragic heroine Code sacrifices herself and protects her lover Hammurabi from the oncoming Assyrian armies by throwing herself with her spears and daggers into the midst of the battle.

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