cobwebbery
cobwebbery noun: a mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy.
Noun
cobwebbery (countable and uncountable, plural cobwebberies)
- A mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy.
- When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page)
- Much of the cobwebbery of superstition, ancient and modern, is readily brushed away by this confident and sure hand; but there are other facts, facts of Christian consciousness, which do not, from our standpoint, disappear so readily.1878, The Literary World, volume 9, page 43
cobwebbery meaning in Tamil
cobwebbery in Tamil
- சிலந்தி வலைப்பின்னல்
Forms of cobwebbery
| plural | cobwebberies |
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Origin of cobwebbery
From cobweb + -ery.
Questions about cobwebbery
- What does cobwebbery mean?
- Cobwebbery means a mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy.
- What is cobwebbery in Tamil?
- Cobwebbery in Tamil is சிலந்தி வலைப்பின்னல். See Cobwebbery meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cobwebbery?
- Cobwebbery is a noun.
- What is the plural of cobwebbery?
- The plural of cobwebbery is cobwebberies.
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