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adoxographies

adoxographies is the plural of adoxography.

Meaning of adoxography

Noun

adoxography (usually uncountable, plural adoxographies)

  1. (rhetoric, usually) Fine writing on a minor or trivial subject.
    • "ADOXOGRAPHY," […] The former word, with the still uglier "adoxographical," would seem to be of transatlantic origin. Some years ago I drew attention (9 S. xi. 425) to the use of the adjective in an American periodical (The American Journal of Philology, xxiii. 393).1910, William White, Notes and Queries, London: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 117

Questions about adoxographies

What is adoxographies the plural of?
Adoxographies is the plural of adoxography.

Words near adoxographies in the dictionary

  1. adoxographer
  2. adoxographers
  3. adoxographic
  4. adoxographical
  5. adoxographically
  6. adoxographies
  7. adoxographs
  8. adoxography
  9. adoze
  10. adozelesin
  11. ADP

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adoxographies (page history and authors); adoxography (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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