lucubration🔊

Intense and prolonged study or meditation; especially, late at night.

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The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration.

Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776)

The product of intense and prolonged study; often, writings.

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With his own ghostly voice, he had exhorted me, on the sacred consideration of my filial duty and reverence towards him,—who might reasonably regard himself as my official ancestor,—to bring his mouldy and moth-eaten lucubrations before the public.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)

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