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COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

Ambrose Bierce
Power, Compulsion, Eloquence
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.34, 谷月社

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

Ambrose Bierce
Country, Responsibility, Power
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

Ambrose Bierce
Life, Death, Power
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Ambrose Bierce
Country, Stupid, Power
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

Ambrose Bierce
Time, Power, Government
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.59, 谷月社

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Ambrose Bierce
Power, Eulogy, Wealth
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.71, University of Georgia Press

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

Ambrose Bierce
Power, Authority, Ministers
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.184, University of Georgia Press

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Ambrose Bierce
Beauty, Husband, Power
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.24, University of Georgia Press

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

Ambrose Bierce
Time, Power, Ubiquity
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.227, 谷月社

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