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Definition of Parrotry
1. n. Servile imitation or repetition.
Definition of Parrotry
1. Noun. servile imitation or repetition ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Parrotry
1. unintelligent imitation [n PARROTRIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parrotry
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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