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quidnuncery

quidnuncery noun: behaviour of a quidnunc; irresponsible rumourmongering.

Noun

quidnuncery (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Behaviour of a quidnunc; irresponsible rumourmongering.
    • The cry so often raised abroad during the crisis of the Dreyfus case, that the military was overriding the civil power, was the veriest quidnuncery.1901, Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page, The World's Work
    • Built on hearsay, scandal, and downright fabrications, this volume, a veritable handbook of quidnuncery, is as much a work of fiction...1968, Frederic Everett Faverty, The Victorian Poets: A Guide to Research

Origin of quidnuncery

From quidnunc + -ery.

Questions about quidnuncery

What does quidnuncery mean?
Quidnuncery means behaviour of a quidnunc; irresponsible rumourmongering.
What part of speech is quidnuncery?
Quidnuncery is a noun.

Words near quidnuncery in the dictionary

  1. quiddling
  2. Quidenham
  3. quidlet
  4. quidlets
  5. quidnunc
  6. quidnuncery
  7. quidnuncs
  8. quidnunctious
  9. Quidong
  10. quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
  11. quids

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