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From Erin’s Weird and Wonderful Word of the Day:

linguipotence
[ling-GWIP-uh-tunce]

mastery of languages or the tongue. A nonce word used once by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “The New Testament contains not the least proof of the linguipotence of the Apostles, but the clearest proof of the contrary.”

Posted by Nathan Bierma on 04/12 at 07:18 PM
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