Los
[lɔ:s]
Definition
(n.) Praise. See Loos.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Privation of that which we had or had not. Thus in the latter sense it is said of a defeated candidate that he 'lost his election '; and of that eminent man the poet Gilder that he has 'lost his mind. ' It is in the former and more legitimate sense that the word is used in the famous epitaph:
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Examples
- Durruti was good and his own people shot him there at the Puente de los Franceses. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Los Angeles is undertaking one of the greatest municipal projects of the day. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Those bombs at Los Angeles, assassination and terrorism, are compounded of courage, indignation and ignorance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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