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Gettysburg Address

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1. Gettysburg Address - Noun

2. Gettysburg Address - Proper noun

Meaning

a three-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg (November 19, 1863)

Source: WordNet

Examples

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. Ernest Hemingway

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Ernest Hemingway

Abraham Lincoln actor Robert Broski recites the Gettysburg Address during the 81st Annual Lincoln Pilgrimage parade and Lincoln Shrine open house in Redlands, Saturday, Feb., 8, 2020. Source: Internet

King's speech, with its language of patriotism and its evocation of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, was meant to match the symbolism of the Lincoln Memorial as a monument to national unity. Source: Internet

Nicolay, J. "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address", Century Magazine 47 (February 1894): 596–608, cited by Johnson, Martin P. "Who Stole the Gettysburg Address", Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 24(2) (Summer 2003): 1–19. Source: Internet

Doubleday rode with Lincoln on the train to Gettysburg for the Gettysburg Address and Col. and Mrs. Doubleday attended events with Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln in Washington. Source: Internet

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