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pseudo-scholarships

pseudo-scholarships is the plural of pseudo-scholarship.

Meaning of pseudo-scholarship

Noun

pseudo-scholarship (countable and uncountable, plural pseudo-scholarships)

  1. (uncountable) Any body of publications purported to be scholarly or supported by critical scholarship but which fails to comply with scholarly standards.
    • […] if we had possessed much more of the patristic history and literature, our pseudo-scholarship, the natural worship of antiquity, and the spirit of prelatic superstition, would only have used them as so many stronger entrenchments […] ('Mr. Cooper's "Free Church of Ancient Christendom"', The...
  2. (countable) An arrangement that in effect grants a scholarship to a student, without being considered on a par with a real or standard scholarship
    • […] the exceptional close Scholarships would be felt to be something less honourable than the average Scholarship, in fact, as a sort of Pseudo-scholarship. (Report and evidence upon the recommendations of Her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the state of the University of Oxford...

Questions about pseudo-scholarships

What is pseudo-scholarships the plural of?
Pseudo-scholarships is the plural of pseudo-scholarship.

Words near pseudo-scholarships in the dictionary

  1. pseudo-Riemannian manifold
  2. pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
  3. pseudo-riparian
  4. pseudo-Russian
  5. pseudo-scholarship
  6. pseudo-scholarships
  7. pseudo-science
  8. pseudo-sciences
  9. pseudo-skull
  10. pseudo-skulls
  11. pseudo-socialism

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