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entmoot

entmoot noun: a mythical form of consensus building without time constraints where all ideas and opinions of dissent are thoroughly considered and dwelt upon.

Noun

entmoot (plural entmoots)

  1. A mythical form of consensus building without time constraints where all ideas and opinions of dissent are thoroughly considered and dwelt upon.
    • ‘The next day it was proclaimed that the Folkmoot for Judgement should be held on the morning following, for already five hundred of the headmen had come in, and that was by custom deemed the least number which might count as a full meeting of the Folk.’ A similar scene is described in chapter vii...2009 July 23, Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, Edmund Weiner, “Word Studies”, in The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary, illustrated, reprint edition, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 168
    • Moreover, local governance was neither participative in scope nor democratic in conception. Typically, traditionally village affairs, including allocation of rights over the commons, were managed variously by hereditary headmen acting on behalf of the villagers, or by caste/tribal/village councils...2010 July 29, Bina Agarwal, “From Absence to Negotiated Presence”, in Gender and Green Governance: The Political Economy of Women's Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry, illustrated edition...

Examples of entmoot in a sentence

  • This kind of compound is imitated in Tolkien's word entmoot, the great gathering of ents at which the decision is (very gradually) taken to destroy Isengard.2009 July 23, Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, Edmund Weiner, “Word Studies”, in The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English...
  • In other words, unlike in Tolkien's imagined Middle Earth there is little evidence of any tradition akin of an Entmoot, let alone of one which provided space and voice to women.2010 July 29, Bina Agarwal, “From Absence to Negotiated Presence”, in Gender and Green Governance: The Political Economy of Women's...
  • The second subcomponent is the research done on an individual level or though the workings of an entmoot that develop and completely cultivate the original thought.2016 August 10, Michael Stansfield, “Practical Direct Democracy... ...for the Humanist”, in Hiraeth, illustrated edition, Lulu.com, →ISBN...
  • We were on our way to an Entmoot." "What is an ‘Entmoot’?" "I can't be sure.2020 October 18, Diane Anthony, The Remnant, volume 2, Authors 4 Authors Publishing, →ISBN, page 6:

Forms of entmoot

pluralentmoots

Origin of entmoot

ent + moot, referring to the lengthy deliberations of the ents in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Questions about entmoot

What does entmoot mean?
Entmoot means a mythical form of consensus building without time constraints where all ideas and opinions of dissent are thoroughly considered and dwelt upon.
How do you use entmoot in a sentence?
This kind of compound is imitated in Tolkien's word entmoot, the great gathering of ents at which the decision is (very gradually) taken to destroy Isengard.
What part of speech is entmoot?
Entmoot is a noun.
What is the plural of entmoot?
The plural of entmoot is entmoots.

Words near entmoot in the dictionary

  1. ENTJs
  2. Entlebucher
  3. Entlebucher Mountain Dog
  4. Entlebuchers
  5. Entm't
  6. entmoot
  7. entmoots
  8. ento-
  9. entoblast
  10. entoblasts
  11. entobronchia

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