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Definition of Babbitry
1. conventional middle-class attitudes and behavior stressing respectability and material success [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Babbitry
Literary usage of Babbitry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1874)
"CHEAP babbitry.—" On page 65 of No. 691 I see you have taken an article, headed '
Cheap babbitry,' from the ..."
2. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1892)
"... OF babbitry (1547-1(532), second but eldest surviving son of Sir Francis
Knollys [qv], was born in 1547, and was educated in early youth by Josceline or ..."
3. Familiar Allusions: A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information Including the by William Adolphus Wheeler, Charles Gardner Wheeler (1881)
"A noted mansion of the Elizabethan age, the «eat of Lord Saye and Sele, near
babbitry, in the county of Oxford, England. ..."
4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... among the up-and-coming business community at one time, and was perhaps
stigmatized as some sort of babbitry. It may never have really been slang. ..."
5. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1848)
"DOTE-COTE AMD babbitry. In reference to the request of a Mississippi correspondent,
to furnish a plan of a pigeon-house, ..."
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