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And if agenseeing is too far-fetched and pedantic, so long is a shade too informal, slangy.
Since English lacks a calque for au revoir , it would be technically possible to make one, perhaps on the model of Joyce's (or his Stephen Dedalus') “agenbite (of inwit)” for remorse: till the agenseeing . But of course such bitterly pedantic wordplay would be unthinkable on the lips of the plain-spoken priest whose words give the Malle film its title and some of its poignancy.
The Dictionary of American Biography is rather more blunt: His style was too subject to his own criticism to be natural; it was selfconscious and pedantic.
They burrow into the arcana of their topics and inundate potential acolytes with a barrage of pedantic details.
Any more pedantic suggestion being absent, I take the bit between the teeth to suggest that the above word, characterized by the OED as an “onomatopoeic representation of unmeaning chatter,” may well be a jocular rendering of Latin Flebiliter gemens , itself an almost facetious lament meaning something like `Woe is me!