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choate

adjective

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adj

Etymology: By back-formation from inchoate.

  1. Complete, fully formed.

    1988 [Routledge], Anthony O'Hear, The Element of Fire: Science, Art and the Human World, 2014, Taylor & Francis (Routledge Revivals), page 119, The abandonment of style in art is less likely to lead to an authentic expression of one's actual feelings than to a self-dramatising display of adolescent brutality, in which one screams because, deprived of the stylistic means to express anything more choate, or articulated, one simply expresses that.

    Unlike this particular image of Emerson's, however, Bloom's visions are more particularized and more choate in the grimness of his tone.

name

  1. A surname.
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