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Definition of Duncery
1. n. Dullness; stupidity.
Definition of Duncery
1. Noun. Dullness; stupidity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Duncery
1. stupidity [n DUNCERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duncery
Literary usage of Duncery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1859)
"The Westminster divines were as little to his taste as the divines of Lambeth ;
he found that it was but a change of masters ; the "tyrannical duncery" was ..."
2. The Poetical Works of Robert Southey by Robert Southey (1845)
"Notwithstanding this explicit declaration, the duncery of that day ... The duncery
of this day may probably pursue the same course on the present occasion. ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"... and their teaching duncery. Now would Aristotle deny such speaking, and a Dans
man would make twenty distinctions.— Tyndall in R. Here you come with ..."
4. On the Study of Words by Richard Chenevix Trench (1889)
"... more briefly,' You are a Duns,'—or, ' This is a piece of duncery'; and inasmuch
as the new learning was ever enlisting more and more of the genius and ..."
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