Definition of Parrotry

1. n. Servile imitation or repetition.

Definition of Parrotry

1. Noun. servile imitation or repetition ¹

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Definition of Parrotry

1. unintelligent imitation [n PARROTRIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parrotry

parrotbills
parroted
parroter
parroters
parrotfinch
parrotfinches
parrotfishes
parrothouse
parrothouses
parroting
parrotlet
parrotlets
parrotlike
parrotries
parrotry (current term)
parrots
parrotted
parroty
parrs
parry's disease
parry fracture
parrying
parrying dagger
parrying daggers
pars
pars abdominalis aortae
pars abdominalis ductus thoracici
pars abdominalis oesophagi
pars abdominalis ureteris

Literary usage of Parrotry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... the mean stratagems of Malone, and the obsequious parrotry of tradition on the part of subsequent writers, have succeeded in accumulating. ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... the mean stratagems of Malone, and the obsequious parrotry of tradition on the part of subsequent writers, have succeeded in accumulating. ..."

3. Transcendentalism in New England: A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1880)
"Let conversation displace much that passes current under the name of recitation ; mostly sound and parrotry, a repeating by rote not by ..."

4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Spec, mimicking, mimicry, apery, mock (rare), forgery, parrot- ism or parrotry (fig.), etc. Antonyms: see INVENTION. 2. In reference to the result of the ..."

5. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"... that he is as many times a parrot I am ready to allow; but parrotry does not seem to me to be the great aim and end of man's existence. ..."

6. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1858)
"... difference is there between one who understands what he can not express and a mere dumb image? and to speak without understanding is only parrotry,) I ..."

7. The Gentleman's Magazine (1823)
"... hawker of extemporaneous parrotry, a retailer of words and passion ? Our ancestors thought in this wise way, as the learned Dean thus shows, ". ..."

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