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Definition of Mumpsimus
1. Noun. A traditional notion that is obstinately held although it is unreasonable. "He still holds to the old mumpsimus that a woman's place is in the kitchen"
Definition of Mumpsimus
1. Noun. A person who obstinately adheres to old ways in spite of clear evidence that they are wrong; an ignorant and bigoted opponent of reform. ¹
2. Noun. An obvious error that is obstinately repeated despite correction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mumpsimus
Literary usage of Mumpsimus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"mumpsimus. The nickname for persons obstinate in religious matters; used by Henry
VIII. in Parliament, and founded on a story, related by Pace, ..."
2. The Boke Named The Gouernour by Thomas Elyot (1883)
"... out of their accustomed mumpsimus,* I will aduenture to put for ... Some be
too stiffe in their old mumpsimus, other be too busy and curious in their ..."
3. Modern English by Fitzedward Hall (1873)
"Point out, be it ever 1 When using mumpsimus and ... ut errorem emenda- ret,
respondit, se nolle mutare suum antiquum mumpsimus ipsius novo ..."
4. Lectures on Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton (1906)
"Everybody knows Newman's story of the ancient priest who fell into the habit, at
mass, of saying, " quod ore mumpsimus" instead of " quod ore ..."
5. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1868)
"... that distracted his realm, for which he " partly blamed the priests, some of
whom," he sarcastically observed, " were so stiff in their old mumpsimus ..."
6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Of the clergy he said, "Some were so stiff in their old mumpsimus, ... of this
phrase is as follows : A priest had long read in his breviary mumpsimus for ..."
7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"See mumpsimus. King Henry [VIII. 1 finding fault with the disagreement of Preachers,
would often say : Some are too stiff e in their old Mm 11 ] i-¡ i mi - ..."
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