"quiet deploration"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/21/2010 02:03 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>When Thoreau said that lexicographers lead lives of quiet
>deploration, he had it about right.

A Google hapax legomenon, at this instant.  For "quiet deploration",
no Google Web hits, and one Google Books hit, dated by it 1988.

Joel

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